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Inequality

Inequality is the cross-cutting theme to all problems we need to solve: Be it the climate crisis or the division of society – you cannot fully understand the issues without thinking about inequalities. The United Nations have therefore formulated the reduction of inequalities as an independent sustainability goal of the 2030 Agenda, No. 10: Inequality should be reduced within and between countries – “Leave no one behind!”

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What are the Sustainable Development Goals, also known as SDGs? If you want more information about the SDGs, you find it here: 17 SDGs.

Different forms of Inequality

Because there is not “the one” inequality, it makes sense to take a closer look at the various forms. The distinction also helps to understand that different forms of inequality are intertwined and reinforce each other. The pandemic has not affected everyone equally, but mainly those on lower incomes, people with poorer access to education, and BIPoCBlack, Indigenious, People of Colour. If you are interested in a specific category, simply click on the category under the title of the post – and you will be taken to the topic and all posts related to it. Or simply choose one of the following topics and categories:

| University of Konstanz
Study: Political parties ignore existing economic inequality

Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a much smaller role in the election manifestos of political parties both in Germany and in other cou...

| Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Global inequality is the World Bank’s elephant in the room

openDemocracy | The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political. By omitting this dynamic, the World Bank renders the “middle-income trap” a technical problem, when it is in fact deeply political. And technical solutions can’t solve political...

Economy-Finance Narrative Wealth Article-Online
Economic inequality increases risk of civil war, says study

Phys.Org | If economic inequality increases within a country, the risk of civil war breaking out grows. This is the finding from a study by the Chair of Economic History at the University of Tübingen following analysis of data stretching over two centuries and covering a total of 193 countries. The...

High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide

Nature | Climate injustice persists as those least responsible often bear the greatest impacts, both between and within countries. Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate c...

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Since 1984 | German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
SOEP – the Socio-Economic Panel 

The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is a representative repeated survey that has been running since 1984. Every year, on behalf of DIW Berlin, people from households throughout Germany are interviewed by the survey institute. The data provide information on questions about income, employment, education,...

Academic
2022 | Thomas Blanchet, Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman
Realtime Inequality – Who benefits from Growth in the US?

Realtime Inequality - Who Benefits from Income and Wealth Growth in the United States?

Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers come out each quarter, the economists from Berekely show how each income and...

Academic Economy-Finance Income Wealth
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