The global consumption and income project: An introduction and preliminary findings

Rahul Lahoti, Arjun Jayadev and Sanjay G. Reddy

No wp-2015-003, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We introduce two separate datasets—the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset—containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in purchasing power parity units of monthly real consumption and income for every decile of the population (a 'consumption/income profile') for 133 countries and more than half a century (1960-2012).

Keywords: Economic growth; Equality and inequality; Income distribution; Poverty measurement; Statistics; Methodology (Statistics) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/wp2015-003.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2015-003

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Siméon Rapin ().