This paper presents and discusses child relative income poverty statistics for 35 economically advanced countries, representing all the members of the European Union, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States. As most of the data refer to the year 2008,...

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...