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Charles Gore on Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10
Research Brief
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Rachel Gisselquist presents in an expert group meeting on inequalityUNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist will give a presentation at an expert group meeting ‘ Reducing Inequalities: SDG 10 Progress and Prospects ’, organized by the World Bank and UN DESA in Geneva 2-3 April. The event will...
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Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Legal empowerment Ethnicity Horizontal inequalityProject
Inequalities - measurement, implications, and influencing change
Theme: Current programme
Inequality Inclusive institutions Data sourcesProject
Varieties of structural transformation
Theme: Current programme
Structural transformation Inclusive growth InequalityWorking Paper
Learning from the ʻbestʼ: The impact of tax-benefit systems in AfricaRedistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending...
Tax-benefit microsimulation tax-benefit policy microsimulationPolicy Brief
Inequality in India on the riseFollowing the introduction of economic reforms in the early 1990s, India today is achieving unprecedented per capita growth rates. Poverty reduction has also accelerated and is justly celebrated...
Inequality Decomposition Welfare dynamicsPolicy Brief
Inequality in Mexico: On the rise againSince 1989, inequality in Mexico has risen, declined, and risen again. The evolution of labour income inequality is at the core of this pattern...
Labour income Inequality Top incomesWorking Paper
Inequality trends and dynamics in India: The bird’s-eye and the granular perspectivesIndia today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality...
Inequality Decomposition Welfare dynamicsWorking Paper
Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989–2014Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise...
Labour income Inequality Top incomesWorking Paper
Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in IndiaProductivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine...
Intergenerational Mobility Inequality GrowthWorking Paper
The dynamics of spatial and local inequalities in IndiaStudies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or districts, typically the smallest geographical units for which data are representative in national surveys...
Decomposition Inequality Spatial inequalityWorking Paper
Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policyIn this paper we describe the major trends in China’s income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the outcome of four interleaved stories...
China Inequality Development EconomicsWorking Paper
Changing male perceptions of gender equality: Evidence from an experimental studyReducing gender inequality is a critically important development challenge, especially in countries with widespread and deep-rooted prejudices against women...
Gender Inequality Male perceptionWorking Paper
Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the worldWe here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living...
Baromters Gini coefficient Inequality