Statistical Analysis of Income Distribution and Poverty Incidence of Asian Countries under Interdependent Economies

Research Project

Project/Area Number	05301075
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	経済政策(含経済事情)
Research Institution	Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (IERHU)
Principal Investigator	MIZOGUCHI Toshiyuki Professor IER,Hitotsubashi University, 経済研究所, 教授 (60017655)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	TERASAKI Yasuhiro Professor, Dept.of Management, Science University of Tokyo, 経営学部, 教授 (90136622) IKEMOTO Yukio Associate Professor, Research Center of South East Asia, Kyoto University, 東南アジア研究センター, 助教授 (20222911) YOSHIDA Tateo Professor, Dept.of Economics, Okayama University, 経済学部, 教授 (00150889) TAKAYAMA Noriyuki Professor, IER,Hitotsubashi University, 経済研究所, 教授 (30102940) MATSUDA Yoshiro Professor, IER,Hitotsubashi University, 経済研究所, 教授 (30002976) 野島教之一橋大学, 経済研究所, 助手 (40017661) 佐伯親良九州大学, 経済学部, 助教授 (70136589)
Project Period (FY)	1992 – 1995
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
Budget Amount *help	¥8,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,500,000) Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000) Fiscal Year 1994: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000) Fiscal Year 1993: ¥4,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,500,000)
Keywords	Income distribution / Poverty / Asia / Database / データ・ベース / 相互依存経済 / 経済の相互依存 / マクロモデル / 貧困線 / 10分位データ / ジニー係数
Research Abstract	This project aiims to analyze the changes over time of income distribution and proverty incidence of 10 Asian countries or area (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Philippies, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hongkong and Singapore) under the interdependent economies. Pirstly, the data-base called AIDA was constructed based on official publications. Then, the degrees of ineqality of income distribution and the poverty ratios were compared applying same measures for all countries. Pactors determing the changes were also examined by countries. Asian income distribution was also evaluated in a broad concepts. The each income distribution was compared to the world wide distribution. An econometric model was developed to study the inter-relations of distribution between countries.