Global Income Inequality: What it is and Why it Matters?

34 Pages Posted: 28 Dec 2005

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Branko Milanovic

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG); University of Maryland

Date Written: December 2005

Abstract

A non-technical review of the current status of the debate on the extent and trend of global inequality, its future evolution, and whether global inequality matters or not. Proposes a new scheme for distribution of cash aid directly to the poor citizens in poor countries.

Keywords: global inequality, redistribution

JEL Classification: D31

Suggested Citation

Milanovic, Branko, Global Income Inequality: What it is and Why it Matters? (December 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=871664 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.871664

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