Income Distribution

The working paper highlights how inequality in India declined in the period after independence until the 1980s, after which it started rising again. The paper compares the wealth and income …

estimates of income at various points of the income distribution to estimate the share of national income … estimated from CES to arrive at a survey-based income distribution. These scaling ratios are presented in Appendix … 𝑝2 < 1 representing percentiles in the income distribution, survey data is reliable till 𝑝1 while tax … all, we have annual estimates of the full income distribution for the years 1951-2022 that are consistent … of these units to fall in the top of the income distribution. 19 3.2 Top shares vs. bottom shares Broadly …

Since the year 2020, the five richest men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people have become poorer. Published by Oxfam International, …

redistributed to the bottom 40% of the income distribution, global income inequality as measured by …

Released on March 20, 2023, the Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report concludes the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report was …

environmental justice or intra-regional income distribution. IPCC is neutral with regard to the assumptions …

The World Inequality Lab, a research organisation based in Paris, released this report on January 30, 2023. It was authored by Lucas Chancel and Philipp Bothe from the Paris School …

consumption using a simplified model of the global income distribution. Their re- sults suggest that considerably …

The International Labour Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, released this report on January 16, 2023. Written by Daniel Samaan, Ekkehard Ernst, Miguel Sanchez Martinez, Richard Horne and …

those at the bottom of the highly unequal income distribution; the lower half of workers globally earn …

The Delhi-based Oxfam India published this India supplement of the Survival of the Richest report on January 15, 2023. It was written by Apoorva Mahendru, Kanishk Gomes, Mayurakshi Dutta, Noopur, …

rising more quickly at the bottom of the income distribution pyramid compared to the top. Increase in … inequality- enhancing effects on the national income distribution. The India Supplement, 2023 | 19 WHY …

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations, released the 22nd edition of its annual publication The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World on July 6, 2022. …

captured due to the unavailability of 2020 income distribution data. The estimated number of people who … therefore, might increase further once income distribution data become available that will allow to … (at least for the lowest deciles of the income distribution), erratic tax revenues, and inflation pressures …

During the nation-wide lockdown during April-May 2020, about 100 million workers lost their jobs. About 15 million workers continued to be out of work even by the end of 2020, …

5 : Shift in rural and urban per-capita income distribution before and during the pandemic Figure 5 …

Released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on April 4, 2022, this report presents a global assessment of progress made towards the mitigation of climate change. It is …

environmental justice or intra- regional income distribution. Global emission pathways, including those …

Published by Oxfam India on January 16, 2022, this is the India supplement of the global Inequality Kills report. This brief has been written by Oxfam India researchers Apoorva Mahendru, …

households in the bottom and middle of the income distribution, especially in countries like India, to …