Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820-1992

By François Bourguignon, C. Morrisson. 2002

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The democratic transition (2013, background): “…1950, and even more visibly after 1980, there have been two distinct groups of unequal size, poor and 8 A short list of references might include Bourguignon and Morrisson (2002), describing the world income distribution since 1820; Galor and Weil (2000) and Galor (2005, 2011), analyzing the…”
Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries (2013, background): “46 different data sources (i) in order to avoid departing from the typical growth and development literature that is based on National Accounts data, (ii) as a way to alleviate the underreporting issue in household surveys, and (iii) to avoid problems related to the unavailability of surveys for man”
Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational Entities: The Case of the European Union (2007, neutral): “…list of subsequent contributions include Berry, Bourguignon, and Morrisson (1983a, b), Grosh and Nafziger (1986), Chotikapanich, Rao, and Valenzuela (1997), Schultz (1998), Bhalla (2002), Bourguignon and Morrisson (2002), Milanovic (2002), Dowrick and Akmal (2005) and Sala-i-Martin (2006).”
The World Distribution of Household Wealth (2007, background): “In recent years a number of studies have extended this line of work to the global stage, by attempting to estimate the world distribution of income: see, for example Bourguignon and Morrison (2002), and Milanovic (2002, 2005).”
A polarization of inequality? The distribution of national Gini coefficients 1970–1996 (2006, background): “Such an objection is in line with the currently predominant issue in inequality research: how is income distributed among all human beings? For example, Bourguignon and Morrisson [ 9 ] describe the evolution of income inequality between world citizens from 1820 to 1992, drawing on a variety of histo”
Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income (2005, background): “4 Recent examples include Bourguignon and Morrisson [6], Sala-i-Martin [27] and Bhalla [5].”
Middle-Income Traps: A Conceptual and Empirical Survey (2015, background): “…has noted that, in recent decades, widening global gaps between rich and poor individuals have been driven more by increases in the difference between countries’ incomes per capita than by differences in income across households within countries (Bourguignon and Morrison, 2002; Milanovic, 2005).”
Globalization for development (2006, background): “Dollar poor data from Bourguignon and Morrisson (2002), and Chen and Ravallion (2004).”
Global Income Inequality: What it is and Why it Matters? (2006, background): “Bourguignon and Morrisson, 2002).28 Then, in contrast to today, the differences between countries’ mean incomes were relatively small.”
Estimating the Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth (2007, background): “Much attention has recently been given to estimates of the world distribution of income (Bourguignon and Morrison 2002; Milanovic 2002, 2005).”
Foreign aid: An instrument for fighting communism? (2007, background): “(2001) and Freedom House (2001) respectively, and a headcount index of poverty, measuring globally the number of people living on less than $2 a day, based on Bourguignon and Morrisson (2001) and Chen and Ravallion (2001).”
The Global Distribution of Income (2014, background): “Bourguignon and Morrisson (2002) estimated global inequality from 1820 to 1992 through the use of inevitably limited data and manifold assumptions.”
The Kuznets curve of human capital inequality: 1870–2010 (2012, background): “1Bourguignon and Morrisson [5] have 33 macro-countries as Poland is included within their sample but not in ours.”
Current poverty and income distribution in the context of South African history (2011, neutral): “5 In a heated recent debate about trends in world poverty, this assumption of Sala-i Martin was not really challenged, though many other assumptions of estimates were (see Sala-i-Martin 2002a, 2002b, Bourguignon and Morrisson 2002, Quah 2002). 6 Many studies that record lower Gini coef cients use da”