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Conflicting Claims and Taxation: A Distributive History of 20th Century Peru
Over the past century, Peru has experienced sharp distributive shifts shaped by external dependency, political cycles, and changing power relations between labor and capital. Yet
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The Global Democratic Deficit: Undemocratic international institutions favor powerful countries—and shape who pays and who benefits
How does the international system actually work in practice? Who holds decision-making power, who finances global public goods, and who ultimately benefits from them? More
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Should Charitable and Political Donations Benefit from Similar Tax Treatments? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
In many countries, charitable and political donations benefit from generous, and often similar tax incentives, despite serving very different purposes. While the responsiveness of charitable
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Terms of Trade and North-South Relations: Implications for Foreign Wealth Accumulation and Comparative Development (1962-2025)
Since the 1960s, many low- and middle-income countries have remained heavily specialized in primary commodity exports, fueling long-standing debates about deteriorating terms of trade, unequal
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Planetary Habitability, Global Convergence and Structural Transformation, 2026-2100
What level of economic prosperity and well-being is compatible with global convergence (equality between countries) and the preservation of planetary habitability? Or, to put it
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Skin Tone Penalties: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Colorism in Football
Skin tone inequalities are widely observed in economic and social outcomes, yet it remains difficult to identify whether they reflect direct discrimination rather than differences
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2025 Rapport d’activité
Nous sommes ravis de vous présenter notre rapport d’activité 2025. Pour la première fois l’année dernière, les inégalités ont été identifiées comme priorité lors d’un
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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
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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
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