The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and … Convergence, Period

By Xavier Sala-i-Martin. 2006

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

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Globalization and Inequality (2008, methodology): “Using population-weighted income inequality data from 138 countries from 1979 to 2000, Sala-i-Martin (2006), for example, showed that the level of income inequality across countries declined sharply over time.”
Growth, Trade, and Inequality (2014, neutral): “It is clear from (22) that, since all countries converge on the same long-run growth rate of varieties, they must also have the same ability cuto¤ level aRc = aR.”
Capital Accumulation, Private Property, and Rising Inequality in China, 1978–2015 (2019, neutral): “First, given the size of its economy, estimates of inequality in China are a critical building block for estimating the global distribution of income and wealth, which is the subject of much interest (e.g., Sala-i-Martin 2006, Lakner and Milanovic 2013).”
A Quality of Growth Index for Developing Countries: A Proposal (2014, neutral): “The variables used in this study are drawn upon from various databanks, including the IMF World Economic Outlook database, the World Bank’s World Development Indicators (WDI) database, COMTRADE, the International Country Risk Guide database, Barro and Lee (2013) and Sala-i-Martin (2006).”
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).”
How Not to Count the Poor (2005, background): “8 In two recent unpublished papers, Sala-i-Martin (2002, 2006) has produced a set of estimates of global income poverty.”
Aspirations and Inequality (2014, background): “…is evidence of clustering in the income distribution of various countries, including the United States (see Pittau and Zelli (2004), Sala-i Martin (2006) and Zhu (2005)), and especially across countries (Durlauf and Johnson (1995), and Quah (1993, 1996)).25 These authors make a strong…”
Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence (2009, neutral): “Interestingly, however, as established by Sala-i-Martin (2006), the phenomena has not been maintained across people in the world (i.e., when national boundaries are removed).”