Income Distribution Changes and their Impact in the Post-World War II Period
Giovanni Cornia,
Tony Addison and
Sampsa Kiiski
No DP2003-28, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
Abstract:
This paper analyses the trends in within-country inequality during the post-World War II period, with particular attention to the last 20 years, on the basis of a review of the relevant literature and of an econometric analysis of inequality trends in 73 countries accounting for 80 per cent of the world's population and 91 per cent of world GDP-PPP. The paper suggests that the last two decades have been characterized by a surge in within-country inequality in about two-thirds of the developing, developed and transitional nations analysed.
Keywords: Econometrics; Equality and inequality; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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