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The developer’s dilemma: Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growthThe developer’s dilemma is thus: developing countries seek inclusive economic development — i.e., structural transformation — sufficiently broad-based to raise the income of the poor...
Structural transformation Economic development Income inequalityDatabase
World Income Inequality Database - WIIDThe World Income Inequality Database (WIID) presents information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries. It provides the most comprehensive set of income inequality statistics available and can be downloaded for...
Income inequality WIIDPresentation
Conference session at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association conferenceThe changing nature of work and inequality project at UNU-WIDER will present recent research in a session at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA-LAMES) Annual Meeting Bogotá 2021 . About the session: The Changing...
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Social mobility in developing countries: Directions for research practice, knowledge gaps and policy supportFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Inequality Income inequalityTechnical Note
Full-year adjustment for modelling COVID-19 policies in SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation modelsThis technical note presents a modelling approach used in Lastunen et al. (2021) where tax and benefit policies are scaled to reflect their actual duration during a single calendar year...
COVID-19 Tax-benefit microsimulation PovertyWorking Paper
Trends in inequality within countries using a novel datasetWe revisit trends in within-country income inequality using a newly integrated dataset that covers at least 70 per cent of the global population since 1980...
Income inequality Database WIIDWorking Paper
Re-examining the Brazilian South–Northeast labour income gap: A decomposition approachThe purpose of this article is to provide new evidence about the sources of regional income inequalities in Brazil along the wage distribution, taking into account the regional differentials in purchasing power...
Brazil Income inequality DecompositionNews
New updates to the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)The UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database ― widely known by its acronym, WIID ― provides the most comprehensive set of income inequality statistics available. It presents detailed information on income inequality for developed, developing, and...
WIID Inequality Income inequalityTechnical Note
WIID Companion (May 2021): global income distributionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)...
Income distribution Inequality WIIDTechnical Note
WIID companion (May 2021): integrated and standardized seriesThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database (WIID). A previous note described the selection of income distribution series...
Inequality WIID DatabaseTechnical Note
WIID Companion (May 2021): data selectionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)...
Data Inequality WIIDResearch Brief
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South Africa: The top-end, labour markets, fiscal redistribution and the persistence of very high inequalityFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Earnings Personal income tax Survey dataBook Chapter
Brazil: What are the main drivers of income distribution changes in the new millennium?From the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Income inequality Fiscal redistribution Top incomesBook Chapter
Comparing global inequality of income and wealthFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
World Income inequality InequalityWorking Paper
Trends in global inequality using a new integrated datasetThis paper presents preliminary evidence of the annual global income distribution since 1950 using a new integrated dataset that aggregates standardized country income distributions at the percentile level estimated from various sources in the World ...
Global inequality Income distribution WIID