Inequality, Income and Poverty: Comparative Global Evidence

Augustin Fosu ()

No wp-2010-093, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Analysing a large sample of 1980-2004 unbalanced panel data, the current study presents comparative global evidence on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising inequality to increase poverty.

Keywords: Economic development; Income distribution; Panel analysis; Poverty measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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