Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190196 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2018/149
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when harmonizing income and consumption microdata from middle-income countries, we focus on Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa, in a comparative perspective, and we compare them with a selection of benchmark middle- and high-income countries. We also run country-level regressions to correlate the inequality measures with selected macroeconomic indicators.
Subjects: 
economic development
equality
Luxembourg Income Study
middle-income countries
survey data
JEL: 
D31
D63
O1
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-591-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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