Global Income Distribution : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession
We present an improved panel database of national household surveys between 1988 and 2008. In 2008, the global Gini index is around 70.5%, having declined by approximately 2 Gini points. China graduated from the bottom ranks, changing a twin-peaked global income distribution to a single-peaked one a...
Main Authors: | Lakner, Christoph, Milanovic, Branko |
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Format: | Journal Article |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29118 |
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