Global Income Inequality

J.G.M. van Marrewijk

doi:10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosi026.pub3

Global Income Inequality

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Global income inequality can rise and fall at the same time depending on your focus and measure of inequality. Additional problems have to be solved before we can analyze global inequality using suitable measures. Historically, global inequality is now high, although it has been slightly falling recently because of rapid growth in China and India, reducing between‐country income inequality. Undue attention to top and bottom shares is unwarranted as these are bad inequality measures.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology
Editors	George Ritzer
Publisher	Blackwell-Wiley
ISBN (Electronic)	9781405165518
ISBN (Print)	9781405124331
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosi026.pub3
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

global inequality
globalization
incom edistribution
inequality

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