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Poverty, inequality and the distribution of income in the Group of 20

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  • Xavier Sala-i-Martin

    (Treasury, Government of Australia)

  • Sanket Mohapatra

    (Treasury, Government of Australia)

Abstract

This paper provides evidence that supports the claim that the absolute number of people in poverty has begun to fall, notwithstanding global population growth, for the first time in the history of the statistics. Moreover we can now picture how narrowing inter-country inequality has outweighed widening national inequality in some countries, so that global inequality has apparently begun to narrow.

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  • Xavier Sala-i-Martin & Sanket Mohapatra, 2003. "Poverty, inequality and the distribution of income in the Group of 20," Economic Roundup, The Treasury, Australian Government, issue 1, pages 65-92, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsy:journl:journl_tsy_er_2003_1_2
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    1. Anirban Chakraborti & Ioane Muni Toke & Marco Patriarca & Frédéric Abergel, 2011. "Econophysics review: II. Agent-based models," Post-Print hal-00621059, HAL.
    2. Karlsson, Martin & Nilsson, Therese & Lyttkens, Carl Hampus & Leeson, George, 2010. "Income inequality and health: Importance of a cross-country perspective," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 70(6), pages 875-885, March.
    3. Youngsun Koh, 2015. "The social safety net in Korea: from welfare to workfare," Chapters, in: John Karl Scholz & Hyungypo Moon & Sang-Hyup Lee (ed.), Social Policies in an Age of Austerity, chapter 3, pages 44-80, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. Travis Lybbert, 2007. "Polarization & pricing to the rich," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(6), pages 389-394.

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    Keywords

    income distribution; inequality; poverty;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D33 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Factor Income Distribution
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General

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