THE DISTURBING "RISE" OF GLOBAL INCOME INEQUALITY

By Xavier Sala-i-Martin. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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How Not to Count the Poor (2005, background): “8 In two recent unpublished papers, Sala-i-Martin (2002, 2006) has produced a set of estimates of global income poverty.”
Global Income Inequality: What it is and Why it Matters? (2006, background): “The best recent examples of such approaches, which are often a thinly disguised Concept 2 inequality calculations, are Bhalla (2001) and Sala-i-Martin (2002).”
Foreign Direct Investment and Income Inequality in Mexico, 1990–2000 (2007, unknown): “…as either emphasizing state institutions or global markets as the main forces driving income inequality+2 1+ See Firebaugh 1999; Milanovic 2005; Sala-i-Martin 2002; and Wade 2001+ 2+ Bradley et al+ 2003+ Many scholars believe that economic distribution is ultimately shaped by domestic factors…”
The World Distribution of Income (Estimated from Individual Country Distributions) (2002, unknown): “Sala-i-Martin (2002) utilized the data used to create the histograms reported in Figure 1 to directly estimate a kernel density function that captures the world distribution of income for each year between 1970 and 1998.”
Provincial Conditional Income Convergence in China, 1953–1997: A Panel Data Approach (2003, background): “First, in a recent paper Sala-i-Martin (2002) notes that the substantial increase in growth rates during the reform period had largely determined the observed decline in global income inequality.”
Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality? (2004, background): “Milanovic (2002b).”
Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality (2010, unknown): “Zhu and Trefler (2005) show that the Feenstra and Hanson insight can apply in a model with only goods trade.”
The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries (2006, unknown): “While the apologists of globalization see current trends as a clear indication of decreasing global inequality (Sala-i-Martin, 2002), its critics show that this averaged outcome is mainly the result of the exceptional growth of China; meanwhile, absolute poverty has increased in sub-Saharan Africa…”
Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything that Matters is Converging (2005, background): “More recent debates over the extent of global poverty also suggest that weighting (does China count the same as Sierra Leone?) and taking the individual rather than the state as the unit of interest, can also significantly alter results (see Sala-i-Martin, 2002).”