Description: Competing Concepts of Inequality in the Globalization Debate

Competing Concepts of Inequality in the Globalization Debate

Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people have shared in the economic gains from globalization. Opponents in the debate differ in the extent to which they care about relativ...

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Main Author:	Ravallion, Martin
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	INEQUALITY POVERTY MITIGATION POVERTY ISSUES GLOBALIZATION VALUE JUDGMENTS ECONOMIC GROWTH GROWTH THEORY ABSOLUTE POVERTY AGGREGATE GROWTH AGGREGATE INEQUALITY AVERAGE INCOME COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY REGRESSIONS CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA DISTRIBUTIONAL OUTCOMES EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPIRICAL WORK EQUAL WEIGHT GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL GROUP INEQUALITY GROWTH EMPIRICS GROWTH LITERATURE GROWTH MODELS GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES GROWTH-PROMOTING POLICY HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCOME DISPARITIES INCOME GROUPS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVEL INCOME LEVELS INCOME RISK INCOMES INCREASED INEQUALITY INEQUALITY AVERSION INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT INEQUALITY MEASURES INEQUALITY SERIES INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS LIVING STANDARDS MEAN INCOME MEAN LOG DEVIATION MEASURING INEQUALITY NATIONAL INCOME NEGATIVE CORRELATION PARLIAMENT POLICY CHANGE POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY REFORM POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL STABILITY POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR COUNTRY POOR PEOPLE POSITIVE IMPACT POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POWER PARITY PRICE CHANGES PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC POLICY PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY REAL INCOME REDUCING INEQUALITY RELATIVE POVERTY RELATIVE PRICES RISING INEQUALITY SOCIAL CONFLICT SOCIAL CONFLICTS SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS TARGETED TRANSFERS TAX RATES TAX SYSTEM TAXATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/03/4073361/competing-concepts-inequality-globalization-debate http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14115

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Summary:	Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people have shared in the economic gains from globalization. Opponents in the debate differ in the extent to which they care about relative inequality versus absolute inequality, vertical inequalities versus horizontal inequalities, and whether they are consistently individualistic in assessing the extent of inequality. The value judgments on these issues made by both sides need greater scrutiny if the globalization debate is to move forward.

Competing Concepts of Inequality in the Globalization Debate

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