Measuring inequality isn’t easy or straightforward – Here’s why

by Christoph Lakner Co-Authors: Mario Negre, Jose Cuesta, Ani Wilwal In earlier blogposts on recent trends in inequality, we had referred to measurement issues that make this exercise challenging. In this blogpost we discuss two such issues: the underlying welfare measure (income or consumption) used to quantify the extent of inequality within a country, and the fact that…

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