Subnational income inequality revealed: Regional successes may hold key to addressing widening gap globally
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A new study is the first to comprehensively map three decades of income inequality data within 151 nations around the world. Despite finding that income inequality is worsening for half the world’s people, the study also indicates that effective policy may be helping to bridge the gap in ‘bright spots’ –– in administrative areas that account for around a third of the global population.
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