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The rise of inequality and its contested meanings

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: While poverty has been diminishing in absolute terms and relative income has been growing on a global scale for over two centuries, inequality – as measured by instruments such as the GINI coefficient – has been increasing since the early 1980s. With the financial crisis of 2007, the expanding digitalisation of the economy and the current pandemic, global inequality has further worsened, as fortunes of the superrich attain unprecedented levels and revenue concentrates in the top percentiles of societies.

Source: Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)

DOI: 10.71609/iheid-t84c-k244

Authors: Eggel, Dominic, Galvin, Marc

Institution: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Language: English

Topic: Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, No poverty

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7080594702

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