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These carefully selected online resources provide more information about global poverty and wealth inequality.
Poverty Analysis - Measuring Inequality
The World Bank provides several pages about how poverty is measured within countries. This page discusses inequality as one of three "aspects of well-being": "poverty, defined as whether households or individuals have enough
resources or abilities today to meet their needs; inequality in the
distribution of income, consumption or other attributes across the
population; and vulnerability, defined here as the probability or risk
today of being in poverty -- or falling deeper into poverty -- in the
future." The introduction page to this resource is Overview: Understanding Poverty.
Gini Index - Inequality in Income or Expenditure
The United Nations Development Program published a 2007-08 report about human development worldwide. Although the focus of the full report is climate change, there are a lot of data about income and poverty as well. One of the more useful pages is Indicators, where you can find an alphabetical list of links to stats such as "Human development index (trends)" and "Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)." The top page of the U.N. Human Development Report 2007/2008:
Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world.
Measuring inequality of household income: The Gini co-efficient
This page from the U.K. Office for National Statistics provides a short, relatively simple explanation of what the Gini co-efficient means and how it is used to measure inequality. It does include the mathematics, but it also makes it clear what the Gini co-efficient actually measures.
Attacking Poverty and Inequality (video: 7 min. 28 sec.)
"You can't raise a child on $8.50 and hour." In this video from ABC News, analyst Ron Haskins from The Brookings Institution discusses how these issues have changed in the United States since the 1990s.
Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty? (PDF file)
Although it was written back in 1998, this working paper from the International Monetary Fund identifies conditions and government policies that contribute to poverty and an inequal distribution of wealth and financial opportunities.
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