01553cas a2200229 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011543 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 9781616353186 0145-1707 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept. Finance and Development, September 1974. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1974. 1 online resource (52 pages) Finance and Development <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper examines some dimensions of the problem of income inequality. The conventional approach to income inequality is to define the problem in purely relative terms. A familiar technique for this purpose is to measure inequality by the extent to which the income share of groups of individuals or households differs from their population share. The paper examines the problem in terms of income shares of the lowest 40 percent, the middle 40 percent, and the top 20 percent of households ordinally ranked by income. Mode of access: Internet Finance and Development; Finance and Development ; No. 0011/003 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/022/0011/003/022.0011.issue-003-en.xml IMF e-Library