Inequality
Overviews and Factsheets
Top 1% earn as much as the poorest 57%
Article on new inequality estimates from the British Guardian newspaper.
The Guardian
World inequality
Brief summary of different aspects of global inequality, depicted in graphs and short summaries, by the BBC.
BBC
World inequality rises
Article by BBC news on new global income inequality estimates based on the Milanovic study.
BBC
Other Key Articles and Documents
Inequality of world incomes: what should be done?
The evidence strongly suggests that global income inequality has risen in the last twenty years. - The concentration of world income in the wealthiest quintile (20%) of the world’s population is shocking, and cannot meet any plausible test of legitimacy.
openDemocracy
Winners and Losers, by Robert Wade
The global distribution of income is becoming ever more unequal. That should be a matter of greater concern than it is, argues Robert Wade
The Economist
Reports and Publications
Decomposing World Income Distribution: Does the World Have a Middle Class?
Study by researchers at the World Bank. Very few people in developing countries have incomes in the range of those in the rich countries.
The World Bank
Merrill Lynch World Wealth Report 2000
Report on the world's millionaires, whose combined wealth equals $27 trillion, roughly equal the combined annual income of the whole world.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch World Wealth Report 2001
This report shows the number of millionaires in the world (7 million) and their combined total wealth ($27 trillion) - almost equal to the combined GDP of the whole world and of the whole world's population.
Merrill Lynch
True World Income Distribution, 1988 and 1993 (Branko Milanovic)
Major study by Branko Milanovic of the World Bank on a new, more true estimate of global income inequality. This is the original research study.
The World Bank
Other Articles and Documents
A revealing report on the super rich
The growth of financial parasitism at the heart of the world capitalist economy is illustrated in a report published this week on the fortunes of the world's 6 million financial millionaires.
World Socialist Web Site
Number of World's Millionaires Grew in 2000, Merrill Lynch report shows
Press release for the Merill Lynch World Wealth Report 2001 - which shows the wealth of the world's millionaires at $27 trillion, nearly equal to the GDP of the entire planet.
Merrill Lynch
Social inequality and poverty increasing worldwide
World Socialist Web Site
The Forbes 200 list: billions for the privileged few
World Socialist Web Site
The joy of wealth
Article talks about the wealth of the world's richest people, the billionaires and millionaires. Provides a summary of some of the main statistics of the world's super-rich.
The Rising Inequality of World Income Distribution
by Robert Wade
IMF - Finance & Development magazine
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