In this paper , Simon Briole and Camille Salesse focus on the effect of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the pollutant ...

Rowaida Moshrif is a fourth-year PhD student at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). After moving to France in 2018 to pursue her master’s degree in economics at Paris 1 ...

While increasing evidence highlights large disparities in emissions between and within countries, detailed individual-level data on emissions portfolios remain scarce. In this paper, Krystian Bua, ...

Reference data to track economic inequality at the global level, within countries and over time. Based on the systematic combination of national accounts, survey and fiscal data.

Are today’s trade and current account imbalances unique in history? Are international economic relations characterized by self-correcting market mechanisms, or by persistent imbalances and power ...

The World Inequality Report 2026, edited by Lucas Chancel, Ricardo Gómez-Carrera, Rowaida Moshrif, and Thomas Piketty is now available at wir2026.wid.world. Prefaced by Jayati Ghosh and Joseph ...

December 7 th, 2021. The World Inequality Report 2022 presents the most up-to-date and complete data on the various facets of inequality worldwide as of 2021: global wealth, income, gender and ...

While South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world in the 1960s, it sustained positive growth in the 1980s and 1990s until the Asian financial crisis in 1997. But has this so called ...

Business cycle dynamics can shape the wealth distribution through asset price changes, saving responses, or a combination of both. This working paper by Clara Martinez Toledano studies the ...

This paper, by Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin considers the feasibility of implementing a progressive wealth tax to collect additional government revenue and reduce inequality in South ...

The 2023 update of the World Inequality Database confirms that income inequality remains very high in Sub-Saharan Africa: The richest 10% in the region control almost 56% of total income, matching ...