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Paris Conference Calls for UN Tax Convention to Combat Inequality
200 economists, researchers and campaigners from across Europe and the world gathered in Paris on 14-15 March 2024 to discuss the impact of a
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Institutional and Political Factors Influence Long-Term Income Inequality in Eastern Europe in the XX Century: Lessons from Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia
Eastern Europe has undergone dramatic socio-economic and political changes during the twentieth century. This makes the region an interesting laboratory for studying inequality and political
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Top earners and the great compression in the US 1918-1949
Wage inequality in the United States declined substantially in the years surrounding the Second World War. This phenomenon stands out as a primary catalyst in
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Domestic resources insufficient to eradicate extreme poverty, international solidarity needed
The very first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) reads: “By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than
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Economic inequality in India: the “Billionaire Raj” is now more unequal than the British colonial Raj
Given its geographic size and population, now the largest in the world, the distribution of economic growth in India has significant implications for global inequality
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Bina Agarwal and James Boyce win first “Global Inequality Research Award”
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
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
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
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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