There are two main types of data sources of income distributions in China: household survey data and grouped data. Household survey data are typically available for isolated years and individual provinces. In comparison, aggregate or grouped data are typically available more frequently and...

The paper examines the nature and extent of global and regional inequality using the most recent country level data on inequality drawn from the World Bank studies, and real per capita income from the Penn World Tables, for the period 1980-1990. The methodology employed in the paper is based on...