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Egypt’s 1952 agrarian reform reduced persistent inequality and the dominance of the landed elite, but failed to lift up the poorest landowners and the landless.
अप्रैल 17, 2025 | WID.world

The Middle East is one of the most unequal regions in the world today, yet little is known about the long-term dynamics of inequality in ... पढ़ना जारी रखें

Income inequality and ethnic gaps persist in Malaysia – 2016–2022
अप्रैल 14, 2025 | WID.world

In Malaysia’s multiracial, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic society – comprising around 70% Bumiputera, 22% Chinese, 7% Indian, and 1% others as of 2024 – the question ... पढ़ना जारी रखें

Impact of British colonial gender reform on early female marriages and gender gap in education in India
मार्च 31, 2025 | WID.world

Child marriage remains a pressing global challenge, with approximately 12 million girls married before adulthood each year. Research shows that child marriage negatively impacts women’s ... पढ़ना जारी रखें

From housing gains to pension losses: new methods to reveal wealth inequality dynamics in Chile
मार्च 31, 2025 | WID.world

The study of the inequality of wealth holds a central place in the research and policy agendas today. However, very few studies on wealth inequality ... पढ़ना जारी रखें

A new framework to study global wealth inequality under climate change published in Nature Climate Change
मार्च 3, 2025 | WID.world

While climate change and climate policies affect both physical capital and financial assets, their impacts on aggregate wealth and its distribution remain underexplored. Preliminary calculations ... पढ़ना जारी रखें

Despite rising productivity, inequality within the agricultural sector has increased since 1950
फ़रवरी 19, 2025 | WID.world

One of the most striking changes in recent history has been the global shift from agricultural to non-agricultural employment. However, we know little about whether ... पढ़ना जारी रखें

New estimates of wealth inequality based on the distribution of estates
फ़रवरी 19, 2025 | WID.world

The study of the inequality of wealth holds a central place in the research and policy agendas today. However, the overall picture remains highly incomplete, ... पढ़ना जारी रखें

Wealth concentration increases the risks of financial crises, new study finds
जनवरी 27, 2025 | WID.world

The aftermath of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis has intensified research interest in the causes of financial crises. While financial crises have often been interpreted ... पढ़ना जारी रखें

Global demographic shifts: insights from 1800 to 2100
दिसम्बर 17, 2024 | WID.world

How has the world’s population transformed over the past two centuries, and what can we expect in the future? The World Inequality Database (WID) now ... पढ़ना जारी रखें