The global distribution of income in 2050

被引:26
作者
Hillebrand, Evan [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
关键词
global; world; poverty; inequality; income distribution; forecast; development;
D O I
10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.05.013
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 [理论经济学]; 020105 [世界经济]; 03 [法学]; 0303 [社会学];
摘要
Several recent papers have explored the history of the global income distribution and point to some improvements: a falling global Gini coefficient, a falling poverty rate, and falling poverty headcounts. This paper uses the simple accounting procedure (SAP) discussed by Bhalla [Bhalla, S. S. (2002). Imagine there's no country: Poverty, inequality and growth in the era of globalization. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics] and the International Futures Model [Hughes, B. B., & Hillebrand, E. E. (2006). Exploring and shaping international futures. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers] to project the global distribution of income in 2015 and 2050. The results suggest that unless the OECD countries start growing more slowly than is now commonly assumed or broad swaths of the developing world substantially improve their economic performance beyond that experienced in the last 25 years, the global income distribution will soon start to worsen again. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:727 / 740
页数:14
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