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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...
Global inequality WIID Income inequalityPanel discussion
Open dialogue on inequality in the 21st century
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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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Stephen Jenkins on the World Income Inequality DatabaseThe Society for the Study of Economic Inequality has commissioned a series of papers appraising databases containing information about inequality in different countries and globally.These evaluations are forthcoming in a special issue of The Journal...
WIID InequalityNews
Updated Version of World Income Inequality Database now Freely DownloadableThe UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores data on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.
WIID InequalityLecture
Global personal economic inequality and population dynamicsPresentation For more information on this lecture series, please refer to Critical Academy . UNU-WIDER WIID The UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and...