Income Convergence and Income Inequality among Country Groups: A Concordance AnalysisThis study attempts to test the convergence hypothesis using time series of real per capita income based on the ideas of conc
First, we find that China's domestic income inequality has increased since 1990. However, the inequality of China's domestic income distribution is still at a low level among East Asian countries as a whole. Second, the growth of China's per capita gross domestic product (GDP) had an ...
(2001) who find the existence of a trade-off between intra-country income inequality and carbon emissions per-capita. However, we have a larger sample size with data points coming from actual surveys, and apply a variety of empirical techniques and robustness checks. Namely, our work ...
Fig. 2: Impact of redistribution on income inequality. This reports the change rate in the Gini ratios after transfer by country groups in the latest year, showing that fiscal transfers exert little impact on income inequality in developing countries, especially those with a middle or lower develo...
Across the globe, a rise in income inequality has been experienced for the last two decades, particularly in developing countries. This problem of income inequality poses a challenge to Africa’s ability to attain the United Nations (UN) Sustainment Deve
With a gross domestic product per capita of $65,000, the United States ranks as the richest large country in the world. But the U.S. also suffers from high levels of income inequality: According to data from the World Bank, the country that gave birth to the modern auto industry and ...
A.Because the GDP per capita in France is substantially higher than in America.B.Because France witnessed a sharp increase of inequality in income distribution.C.Because income distribution is more polarized in America than in France.D.Because the two countries adopt different methods of national-...
The purpose of this research is to measure the income inequality firstly in fourProvinces of Pakistan individually and eventually in the overall country. There isinequality among the income of people who constitute the nation; there is alsoinequality among the per capita income of different provinces...
1 However, such an approach is less applicable when comparing income inequality across different regions of the same country at a particular moment in time. If two hypothetical families (one low-income and one high-income) relocated from a low income inequality part of the U.S. to a high ...
Colombia, like many developing nations, faces rampant income inequality that acts as a huge barrier for the country to make a leap towards economic prosperity. But to truly understand this great monster in our world called "income inequality", you have to experience both extreme living conditions...