00598nam a2200109Ia 4500080001800000100002300018245006900041260006500110300002000175520027400195583001900469  a03.02.05 M147  aMcGranahan, Donald  aInternational comparability of statistics on income distribution  bUN Research Institute for Social DevelopmentaGenevaCHc1979  aiii, 49, [4] p.  aReviews the current state of income distribution statistics and concludes that poor quality data and unresolved conceptual and technical problems, in a context of structural diferences among countries, do not permit valid cross-national comparisons at the present time.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR