TY  - JOUR
TI  - Decomposing World Income Distribution: Does the World Have a Middle 
Class? 
T2  - Review of Income and Wealth
IS  - 2
KW  - income distribution
KW  - inequality
KW  - middle class
KW  - дифференциация
KW  - коэффициент Джини
KW  - средний класс
KW  - страны мира
KW  - уровень жизни
AB  - Using the national income/expenditure distribution data from 111 
countries, we decompose total inequality between the individuals in 
the world, by continents and regions. We use Yitzhakis Gini 
decomposition which allows for an exact breakdown of the Gini. We 
find t hat Asia is the most heterogeneous continents; between-country 
inequality is much more important than inequality in incomes within 
countries. At the other extreme is Latin America where differences 
between the countries are small, but inequalities within the 
countries are large. Western Europe/North America is fairly 
homogeneous both in terms of countries mean incomes and income 
differences between individuals. If we divided the world population 
into three groups: The rich (those with incomes greater than Italys 
mean income), the poor (those with income less than Western countries 
poverty lie), and the middle class, we find that there are only 11 
percent of people who are world middle class; 78 percent are poor, 
and 11 percent are rich. 
AU  - Milanovic, Branko
AU  - Yizhaki, Shlomo
UR  - http://ecsocman.hse.ru/text/16462172/
PY  - 2002
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VL  - 48
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LA  - EN
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