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New paper on income inequality in Africa, 1990-2017
This new paper by Lucas Chancel, Denis Cogneau, Amory Gethin and Alix Myczkowski makes a first cautious attempt to estimate the evolution of income inequality
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“Capital and Ideology”, by Thomas Piketty
“Every human society must justify its inequalities: reasons must be found because, without them, the whole political and social edifice is in danger of collapsing”.
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Revised national income and wealth series: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA
This paper by Luis Bauluz presents updated series of national wealth and of capital-labor shares of national income for the eight countries covered by Piketty
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New paper on urban elite transformation in China, 1988-2013
This new paper by Li Yang, Filip Novokmet and Branko Milanovic studies social transformations in urban China between 1988 and 2013. For the first time,
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Eighth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ)
From 3 to 5 July 2019, the World Inequality Lab hosted the Eighth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). This
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New paper on income inequality and ethnic cleavages in Malaysia, 1984-2014
This new paper by Muhammed Abdul Khalid and Li Yang (and the associated issue brief) documents the evolution of income inequality in Malaysia, not only
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Update of WID.world macroeconomic aggregates to 2018
WID.world has updated its external data on macroeconomic aggregates: national accounts and price data, as well as population indicators, are now available for 2018. WID.world
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New paper on pre-tax income inequality for Poland
This new paper by Pawel Bukowski and Filip Novokmet updates and revises published series on pre-tax income inequality in Poland. It replaces existing WID.world Working
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Top income shares for New Zealand extended to 2016
The series of top shares of fiscal income for New Zealand have been extended to 2016. The series have also been revised from 2000 to 2014,
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