A major problem encountered in studies of income inequality at regional and global levels is the estimation of income distributions from data that are in a summary form. In this paper we estimate national and regional income distributions within a general framework that relaxes the assumption of...

Recently, there has been a resurgence of studies on the distribution of income and inequality at regional and global levels, largely driven by the concerns of economists, international development organisations and the general public about the overall effects of globalisation on growth and...