Global Income Inequality: What it is and Why it Matters?

By Branko Milanovic. 2006

152 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The paper presents a nontechnical summary of the current state of debate on the measurement and implications of global inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality. And it shows why global inequality matters and proposes a scheme for global redistribution.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Global inequality recalculated and updated: the effect of new PPP estimates on global inequality and 2005 estimates (2012, unknown): “) These are huge topics of their own right and the reader is referred, among others, to the book dedicated to global inequality [24], to the detailed methodological discussion of the problems that bedevil calculations of global inequality and poverty [10, 11, 26, 30], or to an excellent critical rev”
• A Household-Based Human Development Index (2012, unknown): “Rubin (1987), Statistical Analysis with missing data, New York: Wiley.”
• The Impact of Tax and Expenditure Policies on Income Disttribution: Evidence from a (2012, unknown): “It is almost certain that income inequality in a current year depends on its level(s) in previous year(s) and a set of variables that is commonly used in the literature to explain income inequality (see Milanovic, 2006; De Gregorio and Lee, 2002; Gupta, Davoodi, & Alonso-Terme, 2002).”
• Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational Entities: The Case of the European Union (2007, unknown): “Svedberg (2004) and Milanovic (2006) are recent surveys of this literature. share in the total world consumption.”