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World Development: Inequality |
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World Development: Inequality |
| The Rising Inequality of World Income Distribution Does it matter? Has income become more or less equally distributed? What causes inequality? Article by Prof R H Wade (LSE) from December 2001 IMF magazine. | http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/12/wade.htm |
| World Policy Institute Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights Menu of themes (including environment and religion) and regions (particularly the Americas). Good for links on political costs of inequality and has some stats links. | http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/econindex.html |
| Gini coefficient maps. | http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/econrights/maps-gini.html |
| PovertyNet Data on poverty from the World Bank, including lots of articles, one of the best being Income Poverty:Trends in inequality, which includes use of the Gini Coefficient. | http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/trends/inequal.htm |
| Report on the World Social Situation 2001 Published annually by the United Nations. The 2001 Report selected the theme Equity for in-depth treatment. | |
| India Census results from India's Ministry of Home Affairs. Information from the 2001 Census is now online. Includes maps. | http://www.censusindia.net/ |
