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October 2017 Newsletter
WID.world & The World Inequality Lab Newsletter Welcome to the third WID.world and World Inequality Lab newsletter, which covers our main developments over the last
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New paper on inequality in the Middle East
This new paper by F. Alvaredo, L. Assouad and T. Piketty, “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East, 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?”, WID.world Working
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New paper on inequality in Lebanon
This new paper by Lydia Assouad, “Rethinking the Lebanese economic miracle: The extreme concentration of income and wealth in Lebanon 2005-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/13, combines
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New paper and inequality series on India
This new paper by L. Chancel and T. Piketty, “Indian income inequality, 1922-2014: From British Raj to Billionaire Raj ?”, WID.world Working Paper series 2017/11,
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New paper and series on Brazil
This new paper by M. Morgan, “Extreme and Persistent Inequality: New Evidence for Brazil Combining National Accounts, Surveys and Fiscal Data, 2001-2015″, WID.world Working Paper,
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New paper and inequality series on Russia
This new paper by F. Novokmet, T. Piketty and G. Zucman, “From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/09
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WID.world & The World Inequality Lab Newsletter Welcome to the second WID.world and World Inequality Lab newsletter, which covers our main developments over the last
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New income inequality series and paper for Cote d’Ivoire
HIGHLIGHTS: New WID.world data shows that the level of inequality in Cote d’Ivoire is substantially higher than previously thought. According to survey data, the top 1% income share
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WID.world partners with the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Institute
We are happy to announce that WID.world will partner with the CEQ Institute to produce Distributional National Accounts in a number of low and middle
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