Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries

By Facundo Alvaredo, Leonardo Gasparini. 2013

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This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the developing world, although serious problems of consistency and comparability still remain. The available evidence suggests that on average the levels of national income inequality in the developing world increased in the 1980s and 1990s, and declined in the 2000s. There was a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional performance of China over the whole period, and the generalized improvement in living standards in all the regions of the developing world in the 2000s.

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

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The Return of "Patrimonial Capitalism" : A Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014, background): “…long-term study of top incomes in the United Kingdom (Atkinson 2003), the United States (Piketty and Saez 2003), the rest of Europe and the developed world (Atkinson and Piketty 2007), and, most recently, in a number of emerging market economies (Atkinson and Piketty 2010; Alvaredo et al. 2013).”
Inequality, poverty and economic growth (2020, background): “4The SWIID data is not without its problems, one being comparabilitiy across countries; see Alvaredo and Gasparini (2015)) It does however provide the largest, most comparable available data set for inequality research and is widely used in our reference literature.”