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Global trends in relative and absolute income inequality

Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics

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Title Global trends in relative and absolute income inequality
 
Creator Goda, Thomas
 
Subject Global income inequality; relative inequality; absolute inequality; personal income distribution
 
Description This paper provides an overview of historic worldwide trends in relative and absolute income inequality. Depending on the concept used, inequality trends differ considerably. Inequality between countries increased strongly during 1820-2000 and started decreasing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, whether measured in relative or absolute terms. Within-country inequality, on the contrary, grew especially strongly during the last decades: Its growth rate accelerated after 1950 in absolute terms and after 1975 in relative terms. Absolute global inequality also increased substantially in the post-1950 period, whereas relative global inequality decreased slightly during this period.
 
Publisher Universidad EAFIT
 
Date 2016-06-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
text/html
 
Identifier http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/3558
10.17230/ecos.2016.42.3
 
Source Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics; Vol 20 No 42 (2016); 46-69
Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics; Vol 20 No 42 (2016); 46-69
2462-8107
1657-4206
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/3558/2884
http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/3558/3093
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Thomas Goda