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Data from the International Comparison Project are used to assess the economic development in five regions of the non-Communist world: the North, the South, and three regions in the Tropical Middle (in America, Asia, and Africa). The use of an additively decomposable inequality measure is emphasized. A convenient Lorenz-type graphical procedure is presented.
This article first appeared in the Journal of Econometrics, 42 (1989), 145–155. Reprinted by permission of Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland). Research supported in part by the McKethan-Matherly Eminent Scholar Chair. Research assistance by Susan Narduzzi is gratefully acknowledged.
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Theil, H. (1992). The Development of International Inequality, 1960–1985. 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_20
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