On Analysing the World Distribution of Income
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Working Paper Series On Analysing the World Distribution of Income
This paper argues that consideration of world inequality should cause us to reexamine the key concepts underlying the welfare approach to the measurement of income inequality and the inter-relation between the measurement of inequality and the measurement of poverty. There are three reasons why we feel that a reexamination is necessary: (i) the extent of global income differences means that we ...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1357268