income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini …This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

constructing a novel database covering approximately the 80% of the global output and the 60% of the world population, two major … findings stand out. First, the world underwent a spectacular process of capitalization. The share of world individuals with … composition of capital and labor income is, therefore, more equal today than it was twenty years ago, and the world is moving …

Contents: Introduction: Wealth and taxes -- Part I. The wealthy and state revenue generation -- 1. Defining wealth and … of wealth and income, and tax avoidance and tax evasion by corporations and wealthy individuals. Rethinking Wealth and … Taxes explores these problems and considers the possibilities for increasing taxes on wealth to address the increasingly …

The World Inequality Lab (WIL), Wealth and Inequality Research Focus, CALAS Laboratory of Knowledge, and World Elite …