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A UNU-WIDER special panel on inequality — measurement, implications, and influencing change
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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in ChinaIn this paper, we analyse the relationship between China’s structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth...
Inequality Education MigrationWorking Paper
Shifting from deductions to credits: Unpacking the distributional effects of medical expenditure considerations in South AfricaThe recent National Health Insurance White Paper proposes redirection of medical tax credits revenue towards the financing of the national health insurance...
medical tax credit medical expenses tax deductionsWorking Paper
Kuznets’ tension in India: Two episodesDeveloping countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the ‘developer’s dilemma’...
developer's dilemma India InequalityWorking Paper
The ethnographic approach to social mobilityThe ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility...
Ethnography Inequality MigrationJournal Article
Was Kuznets Right?: New Evidence on the Relationship between Structural Transformation and InequalityWe examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960–2012...
Structural transformation Inequality KuznetsJournal Article
Educational Opportunities in Indonesia: Are Factors Outside Individual Responsibility Persistent Over Time?This article is on early view/in press, available on open access. Not all sources of inequality in educational achievements are fair. But how strong and persistent is the burden of unequal opportunities that each person carries on in their life?...
Education Inequality education policyPolicy Brief
Unequal growth in Mozambique and the regionThere is an increasing interest in the analysis of economic inequalities in least developed countries...
Poverty Growth Unequal growthWorking Paper
Was Kuznets right?: New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequalityWe examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960–2012...
Structural transformation Inequality KuznetsWorking Paper
Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration: National and subnational influencesAcross the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and ‘host-country’ populations. What factors contribute to such variation?...
Economic integration Horizontal inequality InequalityJournal 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 incomesBlog
How multinationals continue to avoid paying hundreds of billions of dollars in tax: New research
Tax havens have become a defining feature of the global financial system. Multinational companies can use various schemes to avoid paying taxes in countries where they make vast revenues...
corporate income tax Taxation Profit shiftingJournal Special Issue
Horizontal inequality in the Global South: Data, measurement, and trendsInequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention...
Ethnic group Group-based inequality Horizontal inequalityPolicy Brief
Horizontal inequality: Global trends and data challengesInequality—both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups)—is a core concern in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development...
Group-based inequality Horizontal inequality Ethnic groupJournal Article
Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investmentPart of Journal Special Issue Public economics and development action
Foreign Direct Investment corporate income tax tax avoidanceProject workshop
Social mobility in developing countries — concepts, methods, and determinants