Global Versus National Income Inequalities and Their Impact on Global Governance

Dąbrowski, Marek

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-23092-0_13

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“…Lakner and Milanovic (2016a) note that the Lorenz curves for 1988 and 2008 intersect, but they do not note the implication for non-robustness of the ordinal inequality comparison. 7 The Atkinson index can be written as…”

Section: The Evidence On Global Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Inequality and Globalization: A Review Essay

Ravallion

2018

Journal of Economic Literature

146

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As normally measured, “global inequality” is the relative inequality of incomes found among all people in the world no matter where they live. Francois Bourguignon and Branko Milanovic have written insightful and timely books on global inequality, emphasizing the role of globalization. The books are complementary: Milanovic provides an ambitious broad-brush picture, with some intriguing hypotheses on the processes at work; Bourguignon provides a deep and suitably qualified economic analysis. This paper questions the thesis of both books—that globalization has been a major driving force of inequality between or within countries. The paper also questions the robustness of the evidence for declining global inequality, and notes some conceptual limitations of standard measures in capturing the concerns of many observers in the ongoing debates about globalization and the policy responses. ( JEL D31, D63, E25, F61, F63)

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Section: The Evidence On Global Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%