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World Income Inequality Database (WIID) authors' workshopUNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database research project holds a virtual workshop that brings together researchers selected under the project's open call for research proposals. The selected papers fulfill a project aim to improve understanding...
Working Paper
On data and trends in horizontal inequalityEconomic, social, and political inequalities are at the forefront of today’s public debate...
Inequality Group-based inequality Horizontal inequalityWorking Paper
Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet NamViet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities and the ethnic majority do not benefit equally from the national economic progress...
Poverty reduction Inequality Ethnic minoritiesPresentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policySocial mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
Journal Article
The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in MozambiqueThis study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty, we rely on existing estimated macroeconomic impacts...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityPresentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy at Shiv Nadar UniversitySocial mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
Presentation
Carlos Gradín shares project findings at JICA-IPD Employment Task Force meeting at Columbia UniversityUNU-WIDER Research Fellow Carlos Gradín is invited to speak at the JICA-IPD Employment Task Force meeting convened by the Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ) and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University ( IPD )...
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Social mobility in the Global South – beyond poverty and inequality reductionA new book, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants, produced by UNU-WIDER and edited by Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen and published by Oxford University Press offers students, researchers, and...
Working Paper
Poverty, inequality, and growth: trends, policies, and controversiesReducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Much has changed in the global economy in recent decades and perspectives on progress made vary widely...
Poverty Inequality GrowthPolicy workshop
World Income Inequality Database project presents at the OECD's DAC Community of Practice on Poverty and InequalitiesThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Community of Practice on Poverty and Inequalities (CoP-PI) hosts several thematic dialogues between researchers and practitioners on embedding...
Journal Article
On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governanceInequality is a major international development challenge. This is so from an ethical perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key socioeconomic and political outcomes...
Inequality Growth HealthWorking Paper
The indirect costs of corporate tax avoidance exacerbate cross-country inequalityCorporate tax avoidance hampers domestic revenue mobilization and, with it, the development of lower- and middle-income countries...
Profit shifting Tax avoidance Tax havensJournal Article
The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–beneft policies during the COVID‑19 pandemic: Evidence from EcuadorTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | By combining household survey data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with detailed tax-benefit simulations, this paper quantifies the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax-benefit poli...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyBlog
Advancing social mobility research: Where to start
Innovation in academic investigation and policy response is critical to addressing global challenges...
Social mobility labour market economics InequalityWorking Paper
Revisiting the links between economic inequality and political violence: The role of social mobilizationThe main aim of this paper is to explore theoretically important mechanisms through which economic inequalities may affect the emergence of political violence given the forms of social mobilization they (may) generate...
Inequality Political violence Social mobilization