This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around …

individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences …

standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …This paper contributes to the literature by reviewing levels, trends, and structure of inequality since the early 1990s … the complexity of the underlying drivers of inequality changes. While the primary focus is on examining trends based on …

Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the … learned about trends in the level and distribution of global wealth for the period 2000-14. Finally, the paper discusses the …

and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using …This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring … census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible intersecting inequalities, measuring between-group inequality …

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in …

available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …

direct measurement of net worth, rescaling of reported wealth to balance sheet totals, and capitalization of income flows. We … other financial assets. Our series show no sign of decreasing wealth inequality since apartheid; if anything, we find that … inequality has remained broadly stable and has even slightly increased within top wealth groups. …

This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries … taxes promoted the progressivity of the tax system and contributed to the reduction of inequality. Yet, the effectiveness of … taxation in promoting equality in Latin America is still limited by several factors such as the low average tax revenue as …