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Bina Agarwal and James Boyce win first “Global Inequality Research Award”

March 8, 2024 | WID.world

In recent decades, the study of global inequalities has experienced a remarkable boom: economic, social and environmental inequalities have been the subject of a growing

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Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America

March 6, 2024 | WID.world

Long considered one of the most unequal regions in the world, Latin America also has a rich history of producing statistics on inequality and poverty.

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New website reveals the magnitude of inequality in Latin America

February 27, 2024 | WID.world

Official statistics on inequality in Latin America, exclusively based on surveys, only capture half of the macroeconomic income and underestimate capital income. This creates a

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Beyond class conflicts: Exploring recent trends in world political cleavages

February 9, 2024 | WID.world

Why has growing inequality in many parts of the world not led to renewed class-based conflicts, and seems instead to have come with the emergence

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Political cleavages in Greece 1981-2019

February 7, 2024 | WID.world

Modern Greek history has been a turbulent one. The devastation of the Civil War (1946-1949) gave way to an ‘Economic Miracle’ in the 1950s and

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Inequality across 700 years

January 31, 2024 | WID.world

Following the publication of Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century in 2013, there has been a growing interest in economic inequality and its

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The wealth of generations

January 24, 2024 | WID.world

Since the 1980s, rich countries have witnessed an increase in wealth-to-income ratios, wealth inequality, and a boom in asset prices. Yet, little is known about

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Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022

January 22, 2024 | WID.world

While South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world in the 1960s, it sustained positive growth in the 1980s and 1990s until

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New article published in JEEA on income inequality and taxation in Italy

January 16, 2024 | WID.world

The article “Reconstructing Income Inequality in Italy: New Evidence and Tax System Implications from Distributional National Accounts” by Demetrio Guzzardi, Elisa Palagi, Andrea Roventini, and

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