The notion of "globalization" implies future change, and the prospect of these future changes seems likely to increase the uncertainty faced by poor households in developing countries. In this paper we use data on the changes in Lorenz curves over the last fifty years for a sample of 34 (mostly...

The (closely related) benefit is that we can get by without panel data, using instead only a relatively limited set of data obtainable from repeated cross-sectional surveys of household expenditures, of the sort that many countries conduct in order, for example, to compute consumer price indexes