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The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in ChilePart of Book Extractive Industries
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Extreme poverty - the poorest are being left behind
At our 30th Anniversary Conference we took the chance to interview Martin Ravallion of Georgetown University—we asked him to discuss his recent work...
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A Land Cursed by its Wealth?In Angola, the availability of two abundant resources (oil and diamonds) has prolonged the conflict beyond its Cold War context. The geography and political economy of these resources were crucial to the course taken by the conflict. Matching the...
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Rising Wealth Inequality and Changing Social Structure in Rural China, 1988-95The paper finds that a new system of social stratification is emerging in rural China in the wake of economic reforms, one that is far less equal than what preceded it. As part of this trend, wealth inequality has increased markedly in a short period...
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Inequality in Education and Wealth in TanzaniaPart of Journal Special Issue Horizontal inequality in the Global South
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From the Editor's desk (October 2011)
Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle. Regular...
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Wealth Distribution, the Financial Crisis and EntrepreneurshipWim Naudé and James C. MacGee Globally, wealth is very unequally distributed, both within countries and between countries. The UNU-WIDER project on...
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Measures of inequalityThe majority of income inequality occurs at the tails of the income distribution The Gini coefficient does not provide a representative measure of income inequality When the top 10% of income earners expand their share of national income it often...
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Smoothing or strengthening the ‘Great Gatsby curve’?We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth dependence using a nationally representative longitudinal household survey covering the period 2011–13. We adopt an instrumental quantile...
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Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000–2014Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality
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The World Distribution of Household WealthThere has been much recent research on the world distribution of income, but also growing recognition of the importance of other contributions to well-being, including those of household wealth. Wealth is important in providing security and...
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Does Inequality Lead to Conflict?This paper presents a simple model to show how distributional concerns can engender social conflict. We have a two period model, where the cost of conflict is endogenous in the sense that parties involved have full control over how much conflict they...
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Marketable Wealth in a Poor African CountryThe study uses an asset index of consumer durables to track changes in household wealth in Ghana during the recent period of strong growth. Using the Ghana Living Standards Survey of 1998 that contains both wealth data and consumer durable data, the...
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Land Reform and Landholdings in BrazilLand and wealth are closely related in rural Brazil, a country characterized by high levels of inequality in terms of income or landholdings. After presenting a historical retrospective of land concentration and land reform in Brazil, this study...
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The Evolution of Personal Wealth in the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern EuropeThis study discusses the evolution of personal wealth in transition economies. While data availability is still a problem, the available indirect evidence suggests privatization has resulted in an increase in personal wealth but also in personal...
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Comparing global inequality of income and wealthThis paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world.Measured by the Gini coefficient...
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