A new data set measuring income inequality

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 565-591

  Deininger, Klaus ^a   Squire, Lyn ^a  

^a WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GROWTH IMPACT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INCOME INEQUALITY; INEQUALITY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; DATA ANALYSIS; GINI COEFFICIENT; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; POVERTY REDUCTION;

EID: 0030301517     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/10.3.565     Document Type: Article

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