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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 WIIDNews
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 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 WIIDTechnical 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 WIIDBlog
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...
Inequality Equality Economic inequalityNews
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 WIIDBook Chapter
Economic inequality and subjective wellbeing across the worldFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Barometers Gini coefficient 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 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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