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New WIID Companion to improve the study of inequality
There is a growing need to understand income inequality trends and how they interplay with other social, economic, and political outcomes, both at the country level and worldwide...
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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...
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New release of the World Income Inequality Database — new WIID version includes companion datasets to improve study of global inequalityThe 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...
Equality and inequality WIIDWorking 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 WIIDTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 2021): gobal income distributionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database...
Income distribution Inequality WIIDTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 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...
Inequality WIID DatabaseTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 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 WIIDWorking Paper
Changes in inequality within countries after 1990In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries since around 1990...
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UNU-WIDER releases new version of the World Income Inequality Database
Equality and inequality WIID Database
World Income Inequality Database - WIIDThis is no longer the latest version of the WIID. For the most recent version visit this page . With this WIID version, observations reach the year 2018 and coverage is extended to 200 countries (including historical entities), with over 11,000 data...
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In the Director's chair: Reflections on my first six months as Director
My first six months as Director of UNU-WIDER have been busy, enlightening, and rewarding...
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Inequality: Driving forces and policy solutionsThe many faces of inequality Measuring inequality isn’t as simple as it may seem. We know that since the 1970s global inequality has been falling in relative terms, but absolute inequality has been increasing over the same period...
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Inequality Equality Income inequalityWorking 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...
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