The United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) holds a 3-day virtual conference to convene experts on social and economic policy for an inclusive recovery and inclusive development. The Expert Group Meetings invite speakers and discussants in an engagement which aims to shape UN-ESCAP's 2022 flagship report — the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific.
Carlos Gradín joins the expert group meetings on the third day in Session 6: 'Structural transformation: outlook and policies', 15:00 – 17:00 UTC+7 Bangkok to share key results from two WIDER Working Papers which analyse data on inequality from the World Income Inequality Database (WIID) and the new WIID Companions —datasets hosted by UNU-WIDER.
The entire programme is available here.
World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
Research focal point: Carlos Gradín
Project assistant: Iina Kuuttila
Communications: Timothy Shipp
We revisit trends in within-country income inequality using a newly integrated dataset that covers at least 70 per cent of the global population since 1980. We investigate absolute and relative inequality trends across the past four decades...
This paper presents preliminary evidence of the annual global income distribution since 1950 using a new integrated dataset that aggregates standardized country income distributions at the percentile level estimated from various sources in the World...
Join the network
