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True World Income
Distribution, 1988 and 1993: First Calculation Based on Household Surveys
Alone, October
1999.
Author: Branko
Milanovic
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The paper derives world income or
expenditure distribution of individuals for two years 1988 and 1993. It is the
first paper to calculate world distribution for individuals based entirely on
household survey data from 91 countries, and adjusted for differences in
purchasing power parity between the countries. Measured by the Gini index,
inequality increased from an already very high 63 in 1988 to 66 in 1993. The
increase was driven more by rising differences in mean incomes between the
countries than by rising inequalities within countries. The most important
contributors were: rising urban-rural differences in China, and slow growth of
rural purchasing-power adjusted incomes in South Asia compared to several large
developed market economies.
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