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WORLD INEQUALITY CONFERENCE 2021: Platform published on-line

November 27, 2021 | WID.world

The Platform and Program of the World Inequality Conference 2021 are now live through the following link: https://world-inequality-conference-2021.org/. Please, check this page regularly for updates.

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SECOND WORLD INEQUALITY CONFERENCE: PROGRAM AVAILABLE

November 1, 2021 | WID.world

The program of the Second World Inequality Conference (version 3, 02.11.2021) is available. Please, check this page regularly for updates. The conference, hosted by the

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Climate change & the global inequality of carbon emissions

October 21, 2021 | WID.world

Climate change & the global inequality of carbon emissions, 1990-2020 In this study, Lucas Chancel estimates global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inequality between 1990 and

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Can Redistribution Keep Up with Inequality?

September 20, 2021 | WID.world

Can Redistribution Keep Up with Inequality? Evidence from South Africa, 1993-2019 In this paper, Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin shed new light on

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Discover our new website: InequalityLab.world

September 8, 2021 | WID.world

    We are thrilled to announce that the World Inequality Lab has launched a new website: www.inequalitylab.world. The aim of this website is to

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Article by Facundo Alvaredo, Denis Cogneau and Thomas Piketty published in the Journal of Development Economics

September 7, 2021 | WID.world

    The article “Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–1960”, by Facundo

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vignette brève histoire égalité

New book: “Brève histoire de l’égalité”, by Thomas Piketty (French)

August 26, 2021 | WID.world

« Les questions économiques sont trop importantes pour être laissées à une petite classe de spécialistes et de dirigeants. La réappropriation citoyenne de ce savoir

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World Inequality Lab newsletter

Newsletter | July 2021

July 22, 2021 | WID.world

  ? Book: “Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities” Who votes for whom and why? Why has growing inequality in many parts of the world not

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Global Income Inequality, 1820-2020

July 20, 2021 | WID.world

Global Income Inequality, 1820-2020: The Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality   In this paper, Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty mobilize newly available historical series from

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