Getting real about inequality : evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru (English)

Consumption baskets vary across households and inflation rates vary across goods. As a result, standard consumer price index (CPI) inflation may provide a misleading measure of the inflation actually faced by poor households, more so the more unequal the distribution of aggregate consumption across households. Likewise, changes in observed nominal consumption inequality may be very different from those in true inequality, that is, that measured using...

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Goni Pacchioni,Edwin;

Lopez,J. Humberto;

Serven,Luis;
Document Date
2006/01/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS3815
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Getting real about inequality : evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
Keywords
inflation

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Goni Pacchioni,Edwin; Lopez,J. Humberto; Serven,Luis.

Getting real about inequality : evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3815 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/541661468049747153

Getting real about inequality : evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru (English)

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