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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 9 11:11:46 PDT 2001


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>The World Bank, _World Development Report 1994_ Table 30 also gives
>percentage shares of income by quintiles by country for 132 countries.
>That will allow you calculation of the mean income for each quintile in
>each country if you know the population size and the GDP.

Average household incomes usually come in below per capita GDP, with the discrepancy tending to widen with income. Milanovic uses household survey numbers.

Doug



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