An Overview of Global Income Inequality Trends

Pedro Olinto and Jaime Saavedra

World Bank - Inequality in Focus, 2012, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-4

Abstract: The article reviews trends in global poverty and inequality in the recent decades. It provides evidence that global poverty, especially extreme poverty, reduced significantly, however income disparities between global citizens of the world remained unchanged. The article also discusses policy implications of widening inequality within countries and globally.

Keywords: global poverty; international inequality; global inequality; equality of opportunity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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