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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...
Inequality Income WIIDWorking Paper
China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobilityThe United States and China are the world’s largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world’s economic output...
Intergenerational Mobility Equality of opportunity EducationJournal Article
Global inequality: How large is the effect of top incomes?Despite the growing interest in global inequality, assessing inequality trends is a major challenge because individual data on income or consumption is not often available...
Inequality Income distribution Top incomesWorking Paper
Inequality by population groups and income sources: Accounting for inequality changes in Spain during the recessionI discuss a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources...
Decomposition Recession Earnings inequalityReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.4View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationJournal Article
Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malariaCan agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentJournal Article
Tax-benefit Microsimulation and Income Redistribution in EcuadorPart of Journal Special Issue SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries
Income TaxationJournal Article
Commodity Prices and Intra-Household Labor AllocationVolatility in commodity markets poses a distinct risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture...
Households Income Labour supplyReport
SOUTHMOD Country Report Viet Nam - VNMOD v1.0View the latest VNMOD country report here . This report documents VNMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Viet Nam...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationWorking Paper
Economic and non-economic returns to Communist Party membership in VietnamSingle-party political systems exist in a number of countries, such as China and Vietnam. In these countries, party membership is potentially an important source of economic and social status...
Communist Income CreditReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.2View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationBlog
Income generation and malaria in UgandaSeveral large-scale efforts have been made to combat malaria in the last decade under the Millennium Development Goals, and while these have led to a rapid decline in cases, malaria continues to exact a heavy toll on sub-Saharan Africa, both in terms...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentWorking Paper
Global inequality: How large is the effect of top incomes?In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality...
Equality and inequality Income Income distributionVideo
WIDER Annual Lecture by Justin Yifu LinView the WIDER Annual Lecture on New Structural Economics.
Structural transformation Productivity Economic policyAbout
Photos - AL15Selection of images from the WIDER Annual Lecture 15.
Structural transformation Productivity Economic policyAbout
Photos - AL12Selection of images from the WIDER Annual Lecture 12.
Developing countries History of economics GDP