A Note of Growth and Inequality in Peru, 2003-2008

Renzo Gambetta

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Abstract: This note reports information on the income inequality in Peru calculated from Income Household surveys from 2003-2008. Using surveys from the ENAHO published by the National Institute of Statistics, we used as index the household income annualized, it was divided by the total members of each household to compute the inequality indicators. We computed the density of income distribution using nonparametric methods (Kernel) then we used bootstrapping techniques to check the statistic significance of the inequality indexes variation using the K-S and the MWM to test the null hypothesis of no changes in income inequality between the periods. We conclude that the changes in the inequality indexes indeed have been reducing but in very minimal level even though the economic activity (real GDP) grew at sustained rates, 7.3% in average.

Keywords: income distribution; non parametric estimation; bootstrapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009, Revised 2009
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