Even the World Bank doesn't agree with the article!

http://www.worldbank.org/research/inequality/world%20income%20distribution/world%20apart.pdf

WORLDS APART:
INTER-NATIONAL AND WORLD INEQUALITY 1950-2000
Branko Milanovic1
World Bank, Research Department
The book defines three different concepts of world or inter-national
inequality.
The first uses unweighted countries’ GDPs per capita, the second,
populationweighted
GDPs per capita, the third, combines inter-national and internal income
distribution to derive “true” world income distribution. According to the
first and
the second concept, inter-national inequality respectively increased and
decreased
over the last 50 years. The increase in unweighted inter-national
inequality
reflects divergence in countries’ growth rates particularly during the last
twenty
years during which most of Latin American, East European, and African
countries
either stagnated or declined. The decline in population-weighted
inter-national
inequality is entirely driven by China’s fast growth during the last two
decades.
The third concept, world inequality, is based on incomes or expenditures
calculated from household surveys and is consequently available for a much
shorter time period. Over the period 1988-93, it shows an important
increase in
inequality caused by slower growth of rural incomes in populous Asian
countries
compared to the rich OECD countries, as well as by rising urban-rural
income
differences in China, and by declining income in transition countries.

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