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From the Editor's desk (October 2011)
Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle. Regular...
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Wealth Distribution, the Financial Crisis and EntrepreneurshipWim Naudé and James C. MacGee Globally, wealth is very unequally distributed, both within countries and between countries. The UNU-WIDER project on...
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Measures of inequalityThe majority of income inequality occurs at the tails of the income distribution The Gini coefficient does not provide a representative measure of income inequality When the top 10% of income earners expand their share of national income it often...
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Smoothing or strengthening the ‘Great Gatsby curve’?We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth dependence using a nationally representative longitudinal household survey covering the period 2011–13. We adopt an instrumental quantile...
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Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000–2014Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality
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Recent Distributive Changes in Latin AmericaPart of Book Falling Inequality in Latin America
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From the Editor's Desk (March 2015)
I’m writing this editorial from Dar es Salaam, while at the 20th anniversary workshop for Tanzania’s REPOA, one of our research partners. UNU-WIDER...
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Researching Inequality – An Interview with James B. Davies
James B. Davies, Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, played a key role in UNU-WIDER’s pioneering research into global...
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Sovereign Debt and Uncertainty in the Mozambican EconomyThis paper studies the impact of uncertainty and debt crisis on the dynamics of the Mozambican economy over the last two decades. Investment boom and accelerated growth did not take place until peace and economic reforms were assured, helped by the...
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Researching and Reporting on Global Wealth – Two Interviews with Anthony Shorrocks
30 October 2014 by Roger Williamson In this interview Professor Anthony Shorrocks describes the methodology to research global household wealth...
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The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in ChileHistorically, Chile has been an economy dominated by mineral and agro-industrial products and subject to frequent external shocks particularly in copper prices. Since the 1980s, the authorities have developed various mechanisms to cope with these...
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Income, Wealth, and Socialization in ArgentinaPart of Journal Special Issue Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America
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The Impact of IT Investment on Income and Wealth Inequality in the Postwar US EconomyPart of Journal Special Issue The New Economy
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Sharing Ownership via Employee Stock OwnershipPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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Estimating the Level and Distribution of Global Household WealthWe provide the first estimate of the level and distribution of global household wealth. Mean assets and debts within countries are measured, partly or wholly, for 38 countries using household balance sheet and survey data centred on the year 2000...
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