Michael Perelman wrote:
>My question concerned New Zealand. I was wondering how much it differed
>from the U.S. in terms of the distribution of the growth of the pie.
>Maybe Doug's studies of the Luxembourg work indicates how other countries
>have fared in this respect.
NZ isn't in the LIS. Branko Milanovic of the World Bank estimates
NZ's 1993 gini at .430, up from .384 in 1998. NZ comes in #25 -
Brazil, of course, is #1, at .590 in 1993 - ahead of the U.S. (.370
in 1988, .394 in 1993), which usually comes in #2 in LIS rankings,
just behind Russia, and more unequal than the Philippines
(.405/.426). Japan came in #83 in 1993, at .243.
This isn't what you asked, but if you wrote to the LIS folks, they'd
probably be happy to run the kind of calculation you're looking for.
Doug
