Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63286 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2004/34
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The purpose of this paper is to establish some basic facts about income inequality in the Philippines, with a special focus on the importance of spatial income inequality. Despite major fluctuations in macroeconomic performances, income inequality remained relatively stable during the years 1985-2000. Spatial inequality accounts for a sizable but not overwhelming portion of the national-level income inequality, and the relative importance of spatial inequality was declining over time. We also find that mean income levels across provinces were converging at a much faster rate than those observed in currently developed countries.
Subjects: 
income inequality
spatial inequality
inequality decomposition
convergence
neoclassical growth model
Philippines
JEL: 
E13
O10
O15
O53
ISBN: 
9291906212
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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