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We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …
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We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …
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represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … and levels between the two wellbeing distributions. As a result, expenditure inequality is higher in China than in India …
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consumption, as well as uncertainty and demographic composition. Rising inequality has offset about 1/4 of the welfare gains from …Through certainty equivalent consumption (CE) measures, we show that dispersion of current earnings, expenditures, and … net worth overstate welfare inequality. This is largely due to the unaccounted value of future earnings, which we call …
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When President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo took office in 2014, Indonesia was facing stagnating poverty and high inequality … mandated by the Village Law. This paper assesses the implications of these initiatives on poverty and inequality, by … correlating economic growth with real per capita household consumption growth by quintile at the district level. The results …
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This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …
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distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …
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consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID …)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …
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