| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w28392
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 28392
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| COVID-19 and Global Income Inequality |
| Angus Deaton
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| 发表日期 | 2021-01-25
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| 出版年 | 2021
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita incomes by more in poor countries than in rich. This supposition is reasonable but false. Rich countries have experienced more deaths per head than have poor countries; their better health systems, higher incomes, more capable governments and better preparedness notwithstanding. The US did worse than some rich countries, but better than several others. Countries with more deaths saw larger declines in income. There was thus not only no trade-off between lives and income; fewer deaths meant more income. As a result, per capita incomes fell by more in higher-income countries. Country by country, international income inequality decreased. When countries are weighted by population, international income inequality increased, more in line with the original intuition. This was largely because Indian incomes fell, and because the disequalizing effect of declining Indian incomes was not offset by rising incomes in China, which is no longer a globally poor country. That these findings are a result of the pandemic is supported by comparing global inequality using IMF forecasts in October 2019 and October 2020. |
| 主题 | International Economics
; Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Development and Growth
; Development
; COVID-19
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28392
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586066
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