How much do countries reduce income inequality through taxes and transfers?
Most countries reduce income inequality through taxes and transfers — taxing higher incomes more, and redistributing through benefits like pensions, unemployment support, and family allowances.
How can we measure the state of democracy around the world?
Measuring democracy is challenging. It has many dimensions, and researchers assess them in different ways. No single source of data captures the full picture, so we present data from several of them.
EU member states with the most restrictive fiscal policy stance stance in 2026 (i.e. fiscal consolidation) according to the European Commission: Romania, France, Belgium, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Austria.
What happens when the state quietly disappears? A new paper finds that support for populism in Italy (2008–18) rose where hospitals closed, especially in remote municipalities. Greater distance to public services reinforced feelings of abandonment and boosted populist voting.
Chaque nouvelle candidature réduit les chances de battre le RN.
Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇
🚨 L'IPP et la @drees-sante-social.bsky.social recrutent un·e post doctorant·e sur le sujet des aidants
📆 Date limite de candidature le 14 juin
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Postdoc alert! Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. Up to 3 years, a great job in a tight market.
Needs to be able to support teaching on our MPP program, but political scientists could definitely do this (make your case!)
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The mother of all inequality disputes. (All data are in PPPs and on per capita basis; all measures are in Ginis.)
Unweighted international inequality (aka Concept 1 ineq) is inequality of all countries' GDPs per capita (as simple as that). It has been going down, but slowly, over the past 30y,
"Rien qu’en cessant d’écrire « s’il vous plaît » ou « merci » à ChatGPT, on économiserait 98 gigawattheures d’énergie par an."👇
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📊 Data update: How many people live in poverty around the world, and how has that changed over the last decades?
The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is one of the primary tools we have for answering these questions.
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Le développement de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) exigera des quantités gigantesques d’électricité, dont la production rejette du CO₂ dans l’atmosphère. Mais l’IA consomme aussi énormément d’eau et mobilise de vastes surfaces, avertit l’ONU dans un nouveau rapport.
