News
Mapping The Redistributive Debates In Norway And The United States
Debates over inequality and redistribution are central to contemporary politics, yet we know little about how pro-redistributive arguments are framed and how they resonate with
Read
New Data, Revised Methods: Highlights from the World Inequality Database 2025 Update
The World Inequality Database (WID) provides open access to the most extensive database on the historical evolution of economic inequality. Updated annually by the World Inequality Lab
Read
World Inequality Report 2026 – “Inequality persists at a very extreme level”
The World Inequality Report 2026, edited by Lucas Chancel, Ricardo Gómez-Carrera, Rowaida Moshrif, and Thomas Piketty is now available at wir2026.wid.world. Prefaced by Jayati Ghosh
Read
Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Following the abolishment of all discriminatory laws, South Africa’s first universal democratic election took place in 1994 and marked the end of centuries of institutions
Read
500 economists and inequality experts from seventy countries support call for new ‘IPCC for inequality’
Hundreds of the world’s leading economists and other experts on inequality from seventy countries are urging world leaders to establish an International Panel on Inequality
Read
Public Acceptance of International Redistribution in High-Income Countries
In international negotiations, Global South countries demand North-to-South transfers: indeed, redirecting just 1% of high-income countries’ output to low-income countries (LICs) would mechanically double their
Read
Global inequalities in ownership-based carbon footprints over 2010-2022
Who owns the firms that produce global greenhouse gas emissions? In this paper, Lucas Chancel and Yannic Rehm provide the first global estimates of ownership-based
Read
World Inequality Report 2026 | Coming out soon
On December 10, 2025, the World Inequality Lab will release the World Inequality Report 2026 wir2026.wid.world. Edited by Lucas Chancel, Ricardo Gómez-Carrera, Rowaida Moshrif, and
Read
Statement from the World Inequality Lab on the G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts’ Report on Global Inequality
The World Inequality Lab warmly welcomes the release of the G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts’ Report on Global Inequality, published today, November 4, 2025.
Read