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World inequality report 2022
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World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of global trends in inequality, providing cutting-edge information about income and wealth inequality and also pione...
World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of global trends in inequality, providing cutting-edge information about income and wealth inequality and also pioneering data about the history of inequality, gender inequality, environmental inequalities, and trends in international tax reform and redistribution.
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- Paris : Harvard University Press, 2022
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- 1 online resource (267 pages)
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- 0674276590, 0674273567, 9780674276598, 9780674273566
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- on1348486090, on1277275818
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- Extreme Growth at the Very Top
- Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Global Economic Inequality: Insights -- What is the Level of Global Economic Inequality Today? -- Global Income and Wealth Inequality Between Individuals: Initial Insights -- Global Income and Wealth Inequality Between Countries -- Income Inequality Varies Significantly Across Regions -- Differences in Inequality Are Not Well Explained by Geographic or Average Income Differences -- The Geographical Repartition of Global Incomes -- The Limited Impact of Redistribution on Global Inequality
- The Complementarity Between Predistribution and Redistribution -- The Extreme Concentration of Capital -- Box 1.1 Income and Wealth Inequality Concepts Used in This Report -- Box 1.2 The WID.world and Distributional National Accounts Project -- Box 1.3 The Rich Ecosystem of Global Inequality Data Sets -- Box 1.4 Impact of the Covid Crisis on Inequality Between Countries -- Box 1.5 Impact of the Covid Shock on Inequality Within Countries -- Box 1.6 What is the Relationship Between Gross Domestic Product, National Income and National Wealth?
- Box 1.7 Comparing Incomes, Assets and Purchasing Power Across the Globe -- Chapter 2: Global Inequality from 1820 to Now: The Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality -- Global Inequality Rose Between 1820 and 1910, and Stabilized at a High Level Since Then -- Within-Country and Between-Country Inequalities Are As Great in 2020 As in 1910 -- The Global Economic Elite Never Fully Recovered Its Belle Époque Opulence -- The Regional Decomposition of Global Inequality: Back to 1820? -- Taxes and Transfers Do Not Reduce Global Inequality That Much
- Understanding the Roots of Global Economic Inequality: Center and Periphery Imbalances -- Global Inequality Within Countries is Higher Than Inequality Between Countries -- Which Remains Significant -- Box 2.1 Global Inequality: Beyond Income Measures -- Chapter 3: Rich Countries, Poor Governments -- What is Wealth and What Does Owning Capital Mean? -- Global Private and Public Wealth: Insights -- The Return of Private Wealth in Rich Countries -- The Secular Fall of Public Wealth was Exacerbated by the Covid-19 Crisis -- The Rise of Private Wealth in Emerging Countries
- The Decline of Public Wealth Across the World -- Net Foreign Wealth has Largely Increased in East Asia and Fallen in North America -- Financialization Increased Everywhere Since 1980, But at Different Speeds -- Economies are Increasingly Owned by Foreigners But Some have Resisted This Trend More Than Others -- Box 3.1 How do We Measure Wealth Inequality Within Countries? -- Chapter 4: Global Wealth Inequality: The Rise of Multimillionaires -- Global Wealth Data Remain Opaque -- How Large is Global Wealth and Where is It Held? -- The Uneven Increase in Wealth Since the 1990s