The Global Consumption and Income Project: An Introduction and Preliminary Findings

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2015
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Economic Growth
First published:
1 January 2015
Authors:
Jayadev, A., Lahoti, R. and Reddy, S.G.

Abstract

We introduce two separate datasets鈥攖he Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset鈥攃ontaining an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in purchasing power parity units of monthly real consumption and income for every decile of the population (a 鈥榗onsumption/income profile鈥�) for 133 countries and more than half a century (1960鈥�2012). We describe the construction of the datasets and demonstrate some possible uses by presenting preliminary results concerning the consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates.

Citation

Lahoti, R.; Jayadev, A.; Reddy, S.G. The Global Consumption and Income Project: An Introduction and Preliminary Findings. UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland (2015) 28 pp. [WIDER Working Paper No. 2015/003]

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