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Title: One Third of the World's Growth and Inequality

Author(s): Danny Quah

Publication Date: April 2002

Keyword(s): china, distribution dynamics, gini coefficient, headcount index, india, poverty and world individual income distribution

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India ? two economies that account for a third of the world?s population. By modelling growth and inequality as components in a joint stochastic process, the Paper calibrates the impact each has no different welfare indicators and on the personal income distribution across the joint population of the two countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are macroeconomic ? growing average incomes dominate all else. The relation between aggregate economic growth and within-country inequality is insignificant for inequality dynamics.

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Quah, D. 2002. 'One Third of the World's Growth and Inequality'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=3316