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Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession
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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 and creating an important global “median” class. 90% of the fastest growing country-deciles are from Asia, while almost 90% of the worst performers are from mature economies. Another “winner” was the global top 1%. Hence the global growth incidence curve has a distinct supine S shape, with gains highest around the median and top.
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- Authors
- Lakner, C., & Milanovic, B.
- Venue
- The World Bank Economic Review
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2015-08-12
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 203-232
- ISSN
- 0258-6770 (ISSN-L)
- 1564-698X
- OpenAlex
- W1517794032
- Cited by
- 598
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 167.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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