The decade since 2000 marks also a clear bifurcation of inequality trends across regions. On the one side, Latin America, and to a much lesser extent SSA7, recorded a decline in income inequality (see table 8), while in other regions inequality rose more frequently than it declined, though the extent of the rise was generally more moderate than in the past. This is evident in OECD, transition, MENA and SEEA countries. Outside Latin America and SSA, inequality fell in 19 countries, while it rose in 33 and stagnated in 20, as confirmed by several recent studies (OECD, 2008, Mitra and Yemtsov, 2006, Koujanou-Goldberg and Pavcnik, 2007).