in both, the global distribution of income in the world and the global distribution of income in Latin America. Finally … American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around …

After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear …