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Jean Drèze receives 2026 “Global Inequality Research Award” during the World Inequality Conference in Paris
On Friday, 5 June 2026, Jean Drèze was awarded the Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA) during the World Inequality Conference organized at Paris School of
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Global Justice Report: the World Inequality Lab maps a path to €5,000-a-month average incomes for all countries within +1.8°C of warming
On June 4, the World Inequality Lab launched the Global Justice Report: a Plan for Equality and Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries, during the opening of
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Taxing Wealth & Enrichment: Lessons from the 1945–French ‘National Solidarity Levy’
Exceptional wealth taxes and capital levies have not yet received all the attention they deserve, notably because it is often assumed that most one-off wealth
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Measuring Income Inequality Using a Graduated Poll Tax: Spain, 1874–1943
Spain’s historical trajectory of income inequality during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has remained relatively absent from wider debates on long-run inequality, largely
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The Global Justice Platform: Distributional Pathways, the Global Justice Fund and the New Democratic International Order, 2026-2100
The declining hegemony of existing powers and the emergence of a multipolar world order make the rethinking of global economic governance under climate constraints both
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Cutting hours through outsourcing
Over recent decades, rising inequality between firms and the fragmentation of production have reshaped labour markets. One key mechanism is the “fissuring” of firms, where
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Land Inequality in India: Nature, History, and Markets
Land is one of the most important productive assets in agrarian societies, yet its distribution remains highly unequal across many parts of the world. Rural
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Extreme Income Inequality in Ecuador – Dollarization, Commodity Price Boom, and Citizen Revolution
Despite growing interest in inequality in Latin America, long-term evidence for countries like Ecuador has remained limited, especially when it comes to capturing top incomes.
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Conflicting Claims and Taxation: A Distributive History of 20th Century Peru
Over the past century, Peru has experienced sharp distributive shifts shaped by external dependency, political cycles, and changing power relations between labor and capital. Yet
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