A.V.Banerjee-E.Duflo, The economic lives of the poor, “Journal of economic perspectives”, 21, 2007, 1, 141-67

• Forte turn over sopra e sotto la poverty line (97% Pakistan rurale, 78% campagne dell’India meridionale)

• Metà bambini a scuola

• Possesso di terra (1-3 ha) 1/3 dei poveri in Pakistan e Guatemala, ½ Nicaragua e Indonesia, quasi due terzi in Perù e Costa d’Avorio

• Pluriattività (no formazione-specializzazione)

• Economia informale, migrazioni a corto raggio

• Indebitamento (spesso privato)

A.Castaneda et al., Who are the poor in the developing world?, Policy Research Working Paper 7844, World Bank, Washington DC 2016

Hh > 3 figli Primary / secondary school

B.Milanovic, Global Inequality, Harvard UP 2016, fig.4.1 p.165

C.Lakner-B.Milanovic, Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of Berlin Wall to the Great Recession, “World Bank Economic Review”, 2015

J.L.van Zanden et al., The changing shape of global inequality 1820-2000: exploring a new data-set, “Review of Income and Wealth”, 2013

Within-country = flat (less impact Urss and New Deal ) + light increase 1990- (former Communist countries) Between country = peak 1973 + decrease 1990-