consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID …)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …

across all individuals in the world. We find that the Gini coefficient of global inequality declined from 69 in 2003 to 65 in … results for consumption patterns by documenting a positive, convex relationship between per capita consumption and the share … of transportation in total consumption, which suggests a more rapid rise in transportation consumption than based on …

Consumption taxes are often considered as the most anti-redistributive component of the tax system. Yet, very few … estimates, and fewer international comparisons of the redistributive impact of consumption taxes exist in the literature, due to … the regressivity of consumption taxes for a large panel of countries and years. We propose a new method for imputing …

inequality. But do they really contribute to the increase in inequality? And, if so, what are the reasons? Is it because they are … financial centers contribute more than other urban areas to the increase in inequality, both at the national and local levels …

In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical … judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society's aversion to inequality. However … inequality aversion utility function using datasets available from the Luxembourg Income Study Database. We utilise the method of …

distributions and an empirical application with the estimation of personal income inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database …