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| Nov 19, 2015 at 4:17 | comment | added | emeryville | My understanding of "around the world" is that @dwjohnston wants to know if inequality is rising in different places in the world, and not in the world in general. By the way, it is not trivial to compare income inequality across countries. You question is more related to the economic concept of convergence, see the corresponding wikipedia link. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 2:44 | comment | added | HRSE | Do you have a source for rising inequality around the world? From the database, I can see that inequality in each country is rising. However it does not tell me that aggregate inequality is rising. Since rich countries are currently growing slower than emerging economies, my first intuition would be that aggregate inequality is falling. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 2:01 | history | answered | emeryville | CC BY-SA 3.0 |