Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries

Autores
Alvaredo, Facundo; Gasparini, Leonardo
Año de publicación
2013
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This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the developing world, although serious problems of consistency and comparability still remain. The available evidence suggests that on average the levels of national income inequality in the developing world increased in the 1980s and 1990s, and declined in the 2000s. There was a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional performance of China over the whole period, and the generalized improvement in living standards in all the regions of the developing world in the 2000s.
Este trabajo corresponde al capítulo 10 de Handbook of Income Distribution, volume 2, editado por A. Atkinson y F. Bourguignon.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
JEL: D31, I32
pobreza
desigualdad social
inequality
poverty
income
consumption
developing countries
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title Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
spellingShingle Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
Alvaredo, Facundo
Ciencias Económicas
JEL: D31, I32
pobreza
desigualdad social
inequality
poverty
income
consumption
developing countries
title_short Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
title_full Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
title_fullStr Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
title_full_unstemmed Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
title_sort Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
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Gasparini, Leonardo
author Alvaredo, Facundo
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Gasparini, Leonardo
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JEL: D31, I32
pobreza
desigualdad social
inequality
poverty
income
consumption
developing countries
topic Ciencias Económicas
JEL: D31, I32
pobreza
desigualdad social
inequality
poverty
income
consumption
developing countries
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Este trabajo corresponde al capítulo 10 de <i>Handbook of Income Distribution</i>, volume 2, editado por A. Atkinson y F. Bourguignon.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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