This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extendedby the UN has been both widely used and … strongly criticized. The criticisms raisequestions about conclusions drawn from secondary inequality datasets in general …

each member country on the basis of national indicators; EU-wide estimates of inequality and poverty play no role. Yet this … methodological requirements of this evaluative exercise, and provides the first estimates of inequality and poverty in the enlarged …

Given that the Lorenz curve is widely used for analyzing income distribution and inequality, this study introduces an … Thailand and other 4 countries with different income inequality, socioeconomic, and regional backgrounds, this study shows that …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

The recent revision of the World Bank’s global poverty estimates based on a new $1.25 (2005 PPP) poverty line …. In the short term, less weight should be given to the Bank’s poverty estimates in monitoring the first MDG. In the longer … requires global institutional coordination. Until it is implemented, the crisis in the monitoring of global consumption poverty …

have to reconcile measures of world inequality and world poverty; and (iii) we need to explore more fully the different … inequality, including provision for those who are concerned only with poverty, (b) incorporates different approaches to the …This paper argues that consideration of world inequality should cause us to re-examine the key concepts underlying the …

have to reconcile measures of world inequality and world poverty; and (iii) we need to explore more fully the different … inequality, including provision for those who are concerned only with poverty, (b) incorporates different approaches to the …This paper argues that consideration of world inequality should cause us to re-examine the key concepts underlying the …