This paper reviews changes in global, between-country and within-country inequality over 1980-2000 against the background of the shifts that occurred in this area during the globalisation of 1870-1914. The paper finds that recent changes in global and between-country inequality are not marked...

The paper reviews changes in within-country income inequality over the last forty years, with particular attention to the years of 1980-2000, against the background of the inequality shifts intervened during the globalisation of 1870-1914. Within-country inequality appears to have risen to...

The paper reviews the steady and widespread decline in income inequality which has taken place in most of Latin America over 2002-10 and which - if continued for another 2-3 years - would reduce the average regional income inequality to pre-liberalization levels. The paper then focuses on the...