Each year poor countries send 2⃣ - 3⃣% of their GDP to the rich world while they could be investing that amount in education, health or climate policies, found @gatonievas & @AliceSodano.
❗️It's time to overthrow this rich world privilege
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The open source for global #InequalityData, both within countries and between countries. #InequalityReport
- TODAY is the release of the 1st World Inequality Report 📈 wir2018.wid.world 👉 Discover 175 million datapoints about wealth and income #inequality in the world. #wir2018
- 🔴LIVE with @DAcemogluMIT, @lucas_chancel, and @PikettyWIL to discuss the book #PowerAndProgress. The recording will be available soon on our YouTube channel in the #EqualityDebate playlist 👉tinyurl.com/3wxcjjvk
- "The 'Billionaire Raj' is now more unequal than the British colonial Raj." 1 month before #IndiaElections, @Nitin_K_Bharti @lucas_chancel @PikettyWIL @anmol_smnch publish a new paper on the long-run evolution of income and wealth inequality in India 🇮🇳 ▶️tinyurl.com/yz4h777s
- 📉Since 1980, global inequality between countries has dropped👉The income gap between the richest 10% of countries & the poorest 50% shrank from 20x to 9x. 📈 But within countries, inequality soared👉The gap between the top 10% & bottom 50% nearly doubled from 10x to 18x.
GIF - 📰NEW PAPER by @guido_alfani In the last 700 years, inequality of income and wealth has tended to grow continuously, with 2 exceptions: 👉After the Black Death pandemic of 1347-52 👉From the beginning of World War I to the mid-1970s ⏩More findings⏩shorturl.at/bixDX
- The World Inequality Lab is happy to announce the update of its database! 🪩 Get more insights into the 2024 #inequalitydata by checking our news posts: 👉10 facts on global inequality in 2024 wid.world/news-article/1… 👉A closer look at six regions wid.world/news-article/i…
- 🗓️Join us for the next EQUALITY DEBATE, with @DAcemogluMIT presenting #PowerAndProgress 💻Online, Monday, Nov 6, 5pm CET Find out more👇 inequalitylab.world/en/event/power…
- "Indian billionaires are largely an upper caste club". @Nitin_K_Bharti @lucas_chancel @PikettyWIL @anmol_smnch propose a new #WealthTax package on the wealthiest 0.04% to tackle economic & caste inequalities and invest more in health & education in 🇮🇳 ▶️t.ly/B_wHQ
- 📢We just updated the World Inequality Database with new wealth #InequalityData up to 2022. Read more🧵 👉
- 📢@amorygethin and Matt Fisher-Post have built a new comprehensive database on the distribution of taxes and transfers in 1⃣5⃣1⃣ countries since 1⃣9⃣8⃣0⃣. 💻Explore the #InequalityData ⏩wid.world 📝Read the Paper⏩ wid.world/news-article/g…
GIF - 🌐We just released a major update of #InequalityData up to 2022! 🔎 Explore what's news on WID.world through 3 lenses ⏩wid.world/news-article/3… @UNDP @taxobservatory @PSEinfo
- 📝 NEW WORKING PAPER Collecting detailed archival data on the coercion intensity of all serfs in Estonia (1580s to 1730s), @tomraster provides the first causal estimate of the effect of labor scarcity on labor coercion. Read more👉wid.world/news-article/c… #EconTwitter
- 🔎How are emissions associated with asset ownership distributed across the population? @lucas_chancel and Yannic Rehm develop a new framework to measure individual carbon footprints extending beyond the traditional consumption-based approach. More here👉wid.world/news-article/t…












