On Analyzing the World Distribution of Income
By Anthony B. Atkinson, A. Brandolini. 2010
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This paper argues that consideration of world inequality should cause us to re-examine the key concepts underlying the welfare approach to the measurement of income inequality and the inter-relation between the measurement of inequality and the measurement of poverty. There are three reasons why we feel that a re-examination is necessary: (i) the extent of global income differences means that we cannot simply carry over the methods used at a national level; we need a more flexible measure; (ii) we have to reconcile measures of world inequality and world poverty; and (iii) we need to explore more fully the different ways in which measures may be relative or absolute. This leads us to propose a new measure, which (a) combines poverty and inequality, including provision for those who are concerned only with poverty, (b) incorporates different approaches to the measurement of inequality; and (c) allows the cost of inequality to be expressed in different ways. Applied to the world distribution for the period 1820-1992, the new measure provides different perspectives on the evolution of global inequality.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Multidimensional poverty and inequality (2014, positive): “48 In the analysis of income inequality, Atkinson and Brandolini (2010) suggest that plausible values for ε are comprised between 0.3 and 3.”
- Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth (2014, methodology): “These data have been previously used, for instance, by Atkinson and Brandolini (2010).”
- The Global Distribution of Income (2014, background): “The first thorough investigation of measures of absolute global inequality is by Atkinson and Brandolini (2010).”