income inequality
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Investment networks, capital accumulation, and sectoral productivity: Explaining global income gaps
Cross-country measures of investment networks reveal how the structure of capital flows across sectors shifts systematically with development. This accounts for around one-third of global income disparities, with the payoff of policies shifting secto...
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Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality
Since 1990, the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil. Which policies have contributed to this meaningful decline?
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The great Chinese inequality turnaround
Sharply increasing inequality became an integral part of the narrative on Chinese development since the beginning of the reform process in 1978. Over the past decade, however, many studies have argued that inequality has been plateauing, or even decl...