Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53119
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2001/128
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
All of the recent empirical work on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth has used inequality data that are not consistently measured. This paper argues that this is inappropriate and shows that the significant negative correlation often found between income inequality and growth across countries is not robust when income inequality is measured in a consistent manner, using data from the World Income Inequality Database. However, evidence is found of a significant negative correlation between consistently measured inequality of expenditure data and economic growth for a sample of developing countries.
Subjects: 
income inequality
expenditure distribution
economic growth
JEL: 
O4
ISBN: 
9291900796
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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