CHILD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: THE WAY FORWARD

Table 1. Summary Results of Global Income Distribution by Population Quintiles, 1990-2007 (or latest available) in constant 2000 ...

Figure 2. A Visualization of Global Income Distribution, 2007 (or latest available) in constant 2000 U.S. dollars Source: Adapte ...

to just over one percent. Similar to the global accounting model, the rate of change for the poorest 40% of the world population ...

Table 4. Poorest and Richest Countries in the World, 2007 (or latest available) in constant 2000 U.S. dollars Poorest 10 percent ...

price surveys, meaning that PPP rates are unlikely to be consistent over time or between different estimates (Callen 2007). The ...

Figure 4 and Table 5 show the distribution of world income from 1990 to 2007 using a PPP dataset in constant 2005 international ...

Table 6. Poorest and Richest Population Quintiles in the World, 2007 (or latest available) in PPP constant 2005 international do ...

We also present the inter-country accounting model using PPP estimates in order to allow us to see the picture for almost the en ...

Table 8. Poorest and Richest Countries in the World, 2007 (or latest available) in PPP constant 2005 intl. dollars Poorest 10 Ri ...

Global Income Inequality Trends and the Poor, Children and Women While the previous section showed the vast income inequalitie ...

2.B. The poor What does global inequality mean for the poor? An illustration of global income disparities adapted from UNDP (199 ...

2.C. Children and youth How does the global distribution of income affect children and youth? At the global level, most children ...

2.D. Women Unlike children and youth, using the same data and methodology, the distribution of income at the global level does n ...

Figure 9. Global Income Distribution and Gender in 2007 in PPP constant 2005 international dollars* Source: Authors’ calculation ...

Table 10. Summary Results of Income Distribution by Income Levels, 1990 -2007 (or latest available) in PPP constant 2005 interna ...

more unequal depiction of our world (Table 11). For instance, ILO (2008:44) estimates that the global Gini index based on wealth ...

Income Inequality across Regions The recent publication of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) (Solt 200 ...

12). According to 2008 Gini index estimates based on Solt (2009), Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the highest ...

Table 13. Top Performers in Reducing Inequality, 2000- 8 (or latest available) [based on change in Gini index according to Solt ...

Data for Latin America and the Caribbean suggest a varied, yet gravely unequal, region (Figure 13). Much of this appears to be r ...