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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
ReadDomestic 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
ReadEconomic 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
ReadBina 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
ReadSeventy-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.
ReadNew 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
ReadBeyond 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
ReadPolitical cleavages in Greece 1981-2019
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
ReadInequality across 700 years
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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