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Top earners and the great compression in the US 1918-1949

March 28, 2024 | WID.world

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

March 26, 2024 | WID.world

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

March 19, 2024 | WID.world

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”

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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