migrates across countries with similar microeconomic specifications. Conversely, in a world where some component of permanent …

argues that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple …The world economy has become more unequal over the last two centuries. Since within- country inequality exhibits no … ubiquitous trend, it follows that virtually all of the observed rise in world income inequality has been driven by widening gaps …

countries of sub-Sahara Africa and elsewhere, and many of the latter are not only falling behind the world leaders, but have …

particularly the incorporation of China and India into the world market economy. For 29 countries since 1919, the levels and trends …

things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this …

reason might be perspective. Most convergence papers frame the analysis in a `Solow world' in which countries exist … independent of one another. But most international trade economists have a very different perspective of a world in which … convergence. Finally, I give two examples applying some of these ideas to real-world data. The basic point of the paper is that …

person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We … compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …