Global Income Distribution : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession

Lakner, Christoph ; Milanovic, Branko

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank

关键词: INCOME DISTRIBUTION;    GINI INDEX;    RECESSION;    HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS;    INEQUALITY;   

DOI  :  10.1093/wber/lhv039

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

We present an improved panel database of national household surveys between 1988 and 2008. In 2008, the global Gini index is around 70.5%, having declined by approximately 2 Gini points. China graduated from the bottom ranks, changing a twin-peaked global income distribution to a single-peaked one and creating an important global “median” class. 90% of the fastest growing country-deciles are from Asia, while almost 90% of the worst performers are from mature economies. Another “winner” was the global top 1%. Hence the global growth incidence curve has a distinct supine S shape, with gains highest around the median and top.