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Income distributions, inequality, and poverty in Asia, 1992 - 2010

Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to calculate measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992 - 2010. Changes in these measures are examined for 11 countries, with a major focus on the People's Republic of China (PRC), India, and Indonesia, which are separated into rural and urban regions. We find that the PRC has grown rapidly with increasing inequality accompanying this growth. India has been relatively stagnant. Indonesia has grown rapidly after suffering an initial set back from the Asian financial crisis in 1997.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ADBI Working Paper ; No. 468

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Estimation: General
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Thema
growth
inequality
poverty
income distribution

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Chotikapanich, Duangkamon
Griffiths, William E.
Prasada Rao, D. S.
Karunarathne, Wasana
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
(wo)
Tokyo
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Chotikapanich, Duangkamon
  • Griffiths, William E.
  • Prasada Rao, D. S.
  • Karunarathne, Wasana
  • Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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