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About 65 percent of total income inequality in the non-communist world is accounted for by international inequality, and about 35 percent by inequality within nations. More than 70 percent of international inequality is accounted for by the inequality of two major regions.
This article first appeared in Economics Letters, 2 (1979), 99–102. Reprinted with the permission of Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland). Research supported in part by NSF Grant SOC 76–82718. The author is indebted to James Meisner for his able computational assistance, and to Professor Robert Summers of the University of Pennsylvania for making Taiwan’s GDP per capita available.
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Theil, H. (1992). World Income Inequality and its Components. In: Raj, B., Koerts, J. (eds) Henri Theil’s Contributions to Economics and Econometrics. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2408-9_19
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