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South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Income Distribution
South Africa’s distributive regime is striking to all who observe it. In this paper, Adam Aboobaker situates developments in post-apartheid income distribution within key macroeconomic
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The Inequality (or the Growth) We Measure. Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes
There is a large gap between income estimates used in inequality studies and macroeconomic statistics. This makes it hard to assess how economic growth
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Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut
Anatomy of the Global Saving Glut In this paper, Luis Bauluz, Filip Novokmet and Moritz Schularick provide a distributional perspective on global saving and
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A brief history of inequality, by Thomas Piketty
“An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief.”—
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World Inequality Report 2022 – French edition is out!
“Read this report, shout out its messages, find ways to act upon it.” Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo Summary: World Inequality Report 2022 –
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Globalization and Factor Income Taxation
Globalization and Factor Income Taxation How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why? In this paper, Pierre Bachas, Matthew H.
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Wealth Inequality in Interwar Poland
Wealth Inequality in Interwar Poland In this paper, Marcin Wroński provides the first estimates of wealth inequality in Poland in the interwar period. To estimate wealth
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Newsletter | March 2022
? Read or download the newsletter (pdf) ? Subscribe to the newsletter: click here Data visualization: Realtime Inequality The impact of
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Effective sanctions against oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry
Summary This note, by Theresa Neef, Panayiotis Nicolaides, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, and Gabriel Zucman, provides data on wealth inequality in Russia and advocates
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