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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Zipf’s Law and World Income Distribution

Davide Furceri

subject

Zipf's law

description

The aim of this article is to demonstrate regularity in the world income distribution. In particular, using GDP per capita data for the period 1980 to 2004, the article shows that the world income distribution follows the well know 'rank-size rule'.

http://hdl.handle.net/10447/48019