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Global income distribution : from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the great recession (English)

The paper presents a newly compiled and improved database of national household surveys between 1988 and 2008. In 2008, the global Gini index is around 70.5 percent having declined by approximately 2 Gini points over this twenty year period. When it is adjusted for the likely under-reporting of top incomes in surveys by using the gap between national accounts consumption and survey means in combination with a Pareto-type imputation of the upper tail...
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Lakner,Christoph; Milanovic,Branko L..

Global income distribution : from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the great recession (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6719 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/914431468162277879

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