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World Inequality Report 2022.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chancel, Lucas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic history--21st century.
- Economic history.
- Equality--Economic aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
- Equality.
- Income distribution--Cross-cultural studies.
- Income distribution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Extreme Growth at the Very Top
- The Evolution of Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries
- Wealth Inequality in Emerging Countries
- What is Driving Global Wealth Inequality?
- Box 4.1 Who Owns What? Breaking Down Asset Ownership by Wealth Group
- Box 4.2 How Do We Measure Wealth Inequality?
- Chapter 5: Half the Sky? The Female Labor Income Share from a Global Perspective
- Female Labor Income Share Across the World Today: Regional Divides
- Evolution of Women's Income Share Across the World
- Women Earn Just a Third of Labor Income Across the Globe
- The Role of Pay Ratios vs. Employment Ratios
- Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women at the Top of the Wage Distribution
- Box 5.1 Methodology
- Box 5.2 Gender Inequality Metrics
- Chapter 6: Global Carbon Inequality.
- The Need for Better Monitoring of Global Ecological Inequalities
- Global Carbon Inequality: Initial Insights
- Emissions Embedded in Goods and Services Increase Carbon Inequalities Between Regions
- Global Carbon Emissions Inequality
- Per Capita Emissions Have Risen Substantially Among the Global Top 1%
- Inequalities Within Countries Now Represent the Bulk of Global Emissions Inequality
- Addressing the Climate Challenge in Unequal Societies
- Box 6.1 Measuring Carbon Inequality Between Individuals
- Box 6.2 Carbon Footprints of the Very Wealthy
- Chapter 7: The Road to Redistributing Wealth
- Why Tax Wealth?
- Modernizing Personal Wealth Taxation
- Estimates for a Global Progressive Wealth Tax
- Regional Wealth Tax Estimates
- Factoring-in Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxation
- Box 7.1 Learning from Past and Current Examples of Progressive Wealth Taxation
- Chapter 8: Taxing Multinationals or Taxing Wealthy Individuals?
- The Role of Corporate Tax in the Progressivity of the Tax System
- The Decline in Corporate Taxation Since the 1980s
- The Promises and Pitfalls of Minimum Taxation
- Chapter 9: Global vs Unilateral Perspectives on Tax Justice
- Usefulness of Unilateral Approaches: The Case of FATCA
- Estimates of Unilateral vs. Multilateral Tax Deficit Collection
- Anti-tax Evasion Schemes Contain Many Loopholes and Cannot be Assessed
- Properly Assessing the Road Towards Tax Transparency: Publishing Basic Information
- Towards a Global Asset Register
- Box 9.1 Central Security Depositories as Building Blocks for a Global Financial Register
- Chapter 10: Emancipation, Redistribution and Sustainability
- The Rise of the Welfare State in Rich Countries (1910-1980)
- The Limited Rise of Tax Revenue and Public Spending in Emerging Countries Since 1980.
- The Stagnation of Global Tax Revenue and Social Expenditure (1980-2020)
- Lessons from Failed Trickle-Down Economics
- The 1980-2020s Have Been Marked by a Rise of Tax Evasion, Further Undermining Tax Progressivity
- Using 21st-Century Progressive Tax Revenue to Invest in Education, Healthcare and the Environment
- Global Redistribution: Moving Beyond Development Aid
- Ending Center-Periphery Imbalances
- Box 10.1 One-Off Wealth Taxes: A Window of Opportunity?
- Box 10.2 Unequal Access to Healthcare: How the Covid Crisis Revealed and Exacerbated Healthcare Inequalities Between Countries
- Glossary
- Country-sheets
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- France
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Nigeria
- Poland
- Russia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780674276581
- 0674276582
- 9780674276598
- 0674276590
- OCLC:
- 1353269995
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