On Analyzing the World Distribution of Income

• Tác giả: Anthony B Atkinson
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 339.2 Distribution of income and wealth
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 328338
• Chủ đề: 1. economic analysis; 2. economic growth; 3. economic research; 4. economic review; 5. empirical level

Tóm tắt

Consideration of world inequality should cause reexamination of the key concepts underlying the welfare approach to measuring income inequality and its relation to measuring poverty. This reexamination leads to exploration of a new measure that allows poverty and inequality to be considered in the same framework, incorporates different approaches to measuring inequality, and allows varied expressions of the cost of inequality. Applied to the world distribution of income for 1820-1992, the new measure provides different perspectives on the evolution of global inequality.