has been hindered by the lack of reliable historical estimates of per capita income for poor countries. The author shows … of per capita income as a plausible lower limit for historical per capita incomes combined with estimates of current … income in poor countries places a binding constraint on their historical growth rates. Finally, the author estimates that …

One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and … developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among … citizens of the world) has declined - modestly -- reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend #4: There is …

When average income rises, the average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately. This is a … consequence of the strong empirical regularity that the share of income accruing to the bottom quintile does not vary … systematically with average income. The authors document this empirical regularity in a sample of 92 countries spanning the past four …

movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular … policies affect income distribution and poverty in Poland. …

high or substantial regional income inequality, only one (Thailand) has experienced convergence in regional incomes. Still … regional income divergence - Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Romania, the Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, and … Vietnam. b) Countries experiencing no significant change in regional income variation - Canada and Mexico. c) Countries …

through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by … the distribution of (pre-tax and transfer) factor income across households, and hence on the exact amount of gain by the … income redistribute more in favor of the poor - even when the analysis controls for the older people's share in total …

Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income … differences between workers and capital-owners in individual countries. Real income of workers in most countries was similar and …, the situation has changed fundamentally: more than 80 percent of global income differences is due to large gaps in mean …

By all accounts, income inequality in Egypt is low and had been declining during the decade that preceded the 2011 … with a low level of income inequality. Moreover, while income inequality shows a decline between 2000 and 2009, the World … compared with 418 household surveys worldwide. Hence, income inequality in Egypt is confirmed to be low while the distribution …

Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and income class …'s global income position (percentile in world income distribution) is explained by only these two pieces of information. Mean … country income (circumstance) explains 60 percent, and income class (both circumstance and effort) 30 percent of global income …

The author implements several inequality decomposition methods to measure the extent to which total household income … of total household inequality in Mexico is attributable to incomes derived from entrepreneurial activities, an income … inequality. Asymmetries in the allocation of education explain around 20 percent of overall household income disparities in …