World Inequality Lab
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- Reposted by World Inequality Lab1/ Big news! Today, we officially launch the International Tax Observatory (#ITO)🚀 Building on the foundation of the EUTO, we are expanding our mission to address global tax evasion, wealth concentration, illicit financial flows & the intersection of taxation & the environment.
- 2025 highlights: ✨ Inequality placed on the agenda of the 𝗚𝟮𝟬 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 ✨2025 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in October ✨2026 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in December ✨27 Working Papers authored by 78 researchers ...and more! 📖 Flip through our report heyzine.com/flip-book/22...
- We are deeply grateful to our team and 200+ research fellows around the world helping us access better data and advance research on inequality wid.world/team/ Follow us 👇 go.bsky.app/2BkwmEXat://did:plc:bzyf5mrucernrcjsjwgdgolt/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lklmog547e2r
- Our work is made possible by the continued support of our funders and partner institutions, whose commitment enables and amplifies our research @undp.org @erc.europa.eu @pse.bsky.social @taxobservatory.bsky.social @icrict.bsky.social inequalitylab.world/en/funding-a...
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- To make the most of the World Inequality Database, consult the DINA Guidelines and other resources: wid.world/methodology/ This 3rd edition includes improved or new: 🔹macro aggregates 🔹income and wealth definitions 🔹data-quality flags 🔹sections on wealth distribution and gender inequality
- 🎧 Listen to @ricardo-eco.bsky.social, lead author of the 2026 World Inequality Report, who discusses the main results of the report, as well as his research on the benefits of early schooling and how early human capital investment closes the inequality gap⬇️ savageminds.substack.com/p/ricardo-go...
- Un débat essentiel pour reprendre la main sur l’énergie ⚡ 🗣️ Avec @lucaschancel.bsky.social et Anne Debrégeas 🎙️Animé par @jadelindgaard.bsky.social 📅 Jeudi 29 janvier, 19h Entrée libre. Inscription conseillée ▶️ inequalitylab.world/fr/event/a-l... @attac.org
- 🔴Global leaders gather in #Davos today, as extreme concentration reaches record highs. For the latest data, explore our World Inequality Report2026 wir2026.wid.world On political inequality, don't miss our friends at @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's new report www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/rese...
- How do people argue for redistribution in Norway 🇳🇴 vs the U.S. 🇺🇸? Do debates lean more on emotional fairness arguments or analytical externality arguments? And what type of argument convinces who? New study by @mortenstostad.bsky.social, M. Lobeck & C. de Meulenaer ▶️ wid.world/news-article...
- Apply now to the #inequality and #institutions program! Great opportunity to learn from World Inequality Lab's researchers including @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @ignacioflores.bsky.social & @cmtneztt.bsky.social 📆From June 15 to 19, 2026 📍Paris ✍️Applications: From January 14 to May 13, 2026
- 📣 Applications are now open for PSE Summer School ! 💡Looking for an opportunity to enrich your economic skills and benefit from a unique combination of cutting-edge research and advanced original methods with an international dimension? 🔗 shorturl.at/fJqeF
- Reposted by World Inequality LabLe décrochage européen est plus une histoire de ralentissement que de point de non retour. La suite dans ma tribune @lemonde.fr fondée sur nos travaux du @wid.world où nous discutons tendances historiques avec R. Loubes, @thomaspiketty.bsky.social et A.-S. Robillard: www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
- 🗣️"Trump a parfaitement compris que ceux qui contrôlent l'énergie contrôlent le monde.", a dit @lucaschancel.bsky.social à @nabilwakim.bsky.social pour le journal @Le Monde 👇 Notre codirecteur sera l’un des invités du Festival des idées « Chaleur humaine », le 18 janvier à Paris.
- Quelles leçons peut-on tirer du coup de force américain au Venezuela pour le climat et la transition ? Les réponses de l'économiste @lucaschancel.bsky.social
- 🎧 Listen to this podcast to explore the key findings of our newly launched World Inequality Report with @thomaspiketty.bsky.social 👇👇👇
- New EQUALS episode is out ft @thomaspiketty.bsky.social Financial flows to north from south now exceed 1% of global GDP — more than all development aid. Piketty explains how debt & reserve currencies favor the North and what could actually change it. 🎧 Tune in: www.equals.ink/p/the-great-...
- Reposted by World Inequality LabNations can't wait for billionaires to die for them to pay tax. Last @wid.world report couldn't be more timely: @thomaspiketty.bsky.social explained @channel4news.bsky.social Helia Ebrahimi why annual wealth taxes on the super-rich beat inheritance taxes. 📺Full : www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeZo...
- ⚠️The top 0.001% - less than 60,000 multi-millionaires - owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined. Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world
- This 3ed edition of our flagship World Inequality Report was edited by @lucaschancel.bsky.social, @ricardo-eco.bsky.social, @rowaida96.bsky.social, & @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, and prefaced by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & J. Gosh. The summary is here in 10 languagues👉 wir2026.wid.world/download/
- 🗣️" #Inequality is increasing at a very fast and alarming pace. But we see that redistributive policies are effective. All we need is political will”, said @ricardo-eco.bsky.social, author of our World Inequality Report for @france24.com 🔗 Report: wir2026.wid.world www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPH...
- 🗣️"Le système économique mondial est en train de créer les conditions de son propre épuisement", a dit @lucaschancel.bsky.social en revenant sur les chiffres de notre Rapport sur les inégalités mondiales. 🔗 Résumé en français ici : wir2026.wid.world/www-site/upl... www.bfmtv.com/economie/pat...
- Read @theguardian.com coverage of our World Inequality Report 2026 wir2026.wid.world 👇
- Reposted by World Inequality LabToday, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
- 📰 En Une du @lemonde.fr aujourd'hui : "L'extrême concentration des richesses mondiales" 3 article à lire pour découvrir en avant-première Le Rapport sur les inégalités mondiales 2026 www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
- South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world, with the top 10% earning 70% of all pretax income. New study by A. Gethin & L. Czajka shows that inequality in 2019 was as high as in 1993. Racial inequality reduced only because top 10% Black incomes surged. ▶️ wid.world/news-article...
- One week left to submit to the Call for Papers for the World Inequality Conference 2026, which will take place at the Paris School of Economics on June 4–5, 2026. inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...
- This conference is organized in partnership with @pse.bsky.social l @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @taxobservatory.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social Berkeley and PSE's Stone Centers
- 🟢 Climate change hits the poorest the hardest shows *Chapter 2.1 of the 2025 #ClimateInequality Report* ⚠️The bottom 50% wil bear ¾ of all income losses from climate change by 2050. Read more in the report 🔗 wid.world/news-article...
- Research shows strong public support for global climate & redistributive policies — and this new study by @adrien-fabre.bsky.social confirms it, through an original survey representative of the population in 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇭 🇯🇵 🇷🇺 🇸🇦 🇺🇸 Read more: wid.world/news-article...
- 🔴 Over 500 economists, including WIL co-director @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, call on world leaders to set up an International Panel on Inequality, as recommended by the Extraordinary Committee's report to the #G20, led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social 🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
- 🚨 We’re hiring! We're looking for a General Manager (M/F) to oversee HR, finance & operations on a fixed term contract 📍 Paris 🕒 Start: Dec 2025 🌍 Bilingual FR/EN required 🎓 Experience: 5+ years in management or research admin Apply now 👉 www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/job-oppor...
- 🟢 Planned new oil, gas, and coal extraction alone could exhaust the 1.7°C carbon budget — This is one of the key findings presented in *Chapter 1.2 of the 2025 #ClimateInequality Report* outlining the scale of ongoing investments projects. Read more in this thread [1/5]🧵
- [2/5] Despite global climate pledges, global capital flowing into fossil fuel projects still amounts to approximately USD 1.1 trillion - about one third of total energy investments.
- [3/5] Ownership of fossil fuel investments reflects global wealth inequality and shows new forms of colonial-style extraction.
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View full thread[5/5] Given the ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and their severe environmental impacts, we call for a ban on all new fossil fuel investments. Read more in #ClimateInequality Report 2025: wid.world/news-article... #WealthInequality #cop30
- There's less than 1️⃣ month to go until the deadline for submissions to our #CallForPapers for the 2026 World Inequality Conference. 🏃♀️Hurry up and submit your paper by 1 December! inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...
- This conference is organized in partnership with @pse.bsky.social @taxobservatory.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social, Berkeley and PSE Stone centers
- We welcome the @josephestiglitz.bsky.social's report and back its call for a global panel on inequality, modelled after the IPCC. It’s time to scale up the work we’ve championed for over 10 years to measure and address the drivers of inequality. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
- 🟢Wealthy individuals fuel the climate crisis through their investments even more than through their consumption and lifestyles — This is one of the key findings presented in *Chapter 1 of the 2025 #ClimateInequality Report*. Read more in this thread [1/6]🧵
- 📊 Our report uses a private ownership-based approach that links emissions from productive assets directly to the owners of firms. Why? 👉 Because richest individuals who own polluting assets control, influence and profit from production processes causing emissions, unlike consumers. [2/6]
- Despite global climate pledges, global capital flowing into fossil fuel projects still amounts to approximately USD 1.1 trillion - about one third of total energy investments. [3/6]
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View full thread[6/6] Given the ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructures and their severe environmental impacts, the reports calls for a ban on all new fossil fuel investments. Read more in the report: wid.world/news-article...
- 🚨NEW REPORT: The Climate Inequality Report 2025 reveals how wealth inequality and the climate crisis drive each other. What's new in the report? — A thread🧵 Download the report▶️ wid.world/news-article... #cop30 #climatejustice #inequality
- 📊 New estimates on the emissions of global wealth groups — using a private ownership-based approach that links emissions from productive assets directly to the owners of firms, not just consumers. #ClimateInequality Report 2025 #inequalitydata
- 🔭 Projections of private & public wealth inequality under different ownership scenarios for climate-related investments. ⚠️The top 1% could see their share of world wealth jump from 38% to 46% by 2050 if they own tomorrow’s low-carbon assets. #ClimateInequality Report 2025
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View full threadBuilding on two years of pioneering research conducted by the WIL and universities worldwide, the Climate Inequality Report 2025 was written and edited by @lucaschancel.bsky.social and @cmohren.bsky.social, with contributions from @pbothe.bsky.social @stellamuti.bsky.social and Pol Villaverde.
