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Method bridges macro accounts with inequality data
The distributional national accounts method bridges the gap between macroeconomic study (which uses National Accounts) and inequality study (which uses tax and survey data) by combining all three sources so that growth statistics for each fractile add up to headline GDP/National Income growth, allocating total national income to population groups.
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Gabriel ZucmanEvidence Quote
“approximate the distribution of Total National Income, as we call it in the National Accounts. And, I want to stress that this, what we've done, in my view, is very much a prototype.”
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