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 dynamics. This underscores the ...

In this paper , Simon Briole and Camille Salesse focus on the effect of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the pollutant ...

In this paper, Edison Jakurti studies how people think inheritances should be taxed using a randomized factorial vignette experiment with 8,106 respondents from probability-based panel surveys across ...

Over the past decades the world has experienced a process of financial integration and capital liberalisation that has permitted an increase in foreign capital accumulation, especially since the 1990s ...

Rowaida Moshrif is a fourth-year PhD student at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). After moving to France in 2018 to pursue her master’s degree in economics at Paris 1 ...

Reference data to track economic inequality at the global level, within countries and over time. Based on the systematic combination of national accounts, survey and fiscal data.

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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 in ...

This paper, by Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin considers the feasibility of implementing a progressive wealth tax to collect additional government revenue and reduce inequality in South ...