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Under the headline A wealth of inequalities bodes ill – Riches are concentrated in the hands of the few, Merryn Scomerset Webb confirmed on March 8, 2013 in the Financial Times what many studies have...
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Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we...
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Martin Gilens, professor of politics at Princeton University and a member of the executive committee of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP), discussed his new book as part of the...
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-The first report of Inequality in Spain 2013 El 1er Informe sobre la Desigualdad en España recoge una serie de trabajos sobre temas diversos, pero todos ellos vinculados a los problemas de la...
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Max Fisher ✔ @Max_Fisher New study on income inequality around the world finds the U.S. has greater inequality than Nigeria, Iran, India http://wapo.st/14ONo1W 4:25 PM – 27 Sep 2013 Map: How...
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Off the Shelf A Surprising Case Against Foreign Aid By FRED ANDREWS New York Times: Published: October 12, 2013 IN his new book, Angus Deaton, an expert’s expert on global poverty and foreign aid, puts...
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According to the World Bank statistics, 1 percent of the population control 40 percent of the world’s wealth, while the top 1o percent control over 80 percent. At the same time, close to 1 billion go...
View ArticleSociety at a glance (OCDE 2014)
Society at a Glance 2014: the seventh edition of Society at a Glance addresses the growing demand for quantitative evidence on social well-being and its trends. Read the full publication online....
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LAST year Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics and a renowned expert on global inequality, published a book titled “Capital in the Twenty-first Century”—in French. It was...
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Oxfam International ✔ @Oxfam We all know there’s #inequality. Here’s what the numbers tell us http://ow.ly/xe0Ed via @ScienceMagazine#bigdata 11:20 AM – 25 May 2014
View ArticleNew challenges to market democracies
Introduction Throughout the West, the triumphalism of the 1990s has given way to deep anxiety. The particulars differ from country to country, of course. But beneath these differences is the shared...
View ArticleGender Inequality Index
The Global Gender Gap Report 2014 benchmarks national gender gaps of 142 countries on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria. This year is the 9th edition of the Index, allowing...
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View ArticleThe 15 most miserable economies in the world
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View ArticleInequality in the world
Making the data available to researchers LIS collects and harmonises microdatasets from upper- and middle-income countries and places them on a secure server. Microdata that would otherwise be...
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The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years. Corey M. Abramson. Harvard University Press. 2015. Corey Abramson’s book, The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years, takes readers on a...
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Javier Doz @JavierDoz1 Informe Eurostat sobre la pobreza en la #UE http://bit.ly/1LWwn7f ¡¡24,4% de media europea!! @jcoscu@Marga_Ferre@IntCCOO 11:42 AM – 18 Oct 2015
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