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Geographic Inequality on the Rise in the U.S.

Geographic inequality has widened over the past four decades. The gap in incomes between richer places and poorer places has grown.

Geographical inequalities are widening - Knowledge for policy

Climate change is aggravating social inequalities. This applies both within and across countries. In a vicious cycle, initial inequality makes disadvantaged ...

Widening inequalities - Knowledge for policy - European Union

The absolute number of people living in extreme poverty has been declining. But the gap between the wealthiest and poorest of the population is widening.

Inequality – Bridging the Divide - the United Nations

These factors determine inequalities of opportunity which continue to persist, within and between countries. In some parts of the world, these divides are ...

Regulation and the Geography of Inequality - Duke Law Journal

The dominant explanations for widening geographic inequality focus largely on inexorable economic trends. Forces like “agglomeration effects” and ...

Widening Gaps: Regional Inequality within Advanced Economies

Many are concerned that these large and persistent gaps signal that regions and people are being left behind, undermining inclusive growth. Poor ...

Geographic Economic Inequality Is Growing in the U.S. - Bloomberg

The economic gap between have and have-not places continues to widen.

Rising inequality: A major issue of our time - Brookings Institution

Over the past four decades, there has been a broad trend of rising income inequality across countries. Income inequality has risen in most ...

Regulation's Role in Geographic Inequality - LPE Project

The causes of widening geographic inequality are less well understood. Dominant explanations focus largely on inexorable economic forces. In ...

Geographic Inequality | American Compass

One of the central economic and social challenges of our time is widening inequality over the past generation between superstar cities and their surrounding ...

The changing geography of inequality

Changes to the geographical patterns of poverty, risks and opportunities, could have quite profound implications for policy. It could, for example, provide a ...

Regulation and the Geography of Inequality

INEQUALITY. GANESH SITARAMAN, MORGAN RICKS & CHRISTOPHER SERKIN†. ABSTRACT. We live in an era of widening geographic inequality. Around the.

Introduction to Inequality - International Monetary Fund (IMF)

During the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, global inequality increased dramatically, reflecting widening disparities between countries' per ...

Geography of economic inequality - Equitable Growth

The geography of economic inequality is a persistent feature of U.S. cities and communities. The magnitude of residential sorting continues ...

Rising inequality affecting more than two-thirds of the globe, but it's ...

Inequality is growing for more than 70 per cent of the global population, exacerbating the risks of divisions and hampering economic and social development.

Widening gaps? Socio-spatial inequality in the “very” European city ...

This paper examines the case of the “very” European city of Vienna, which, like other European cities, has experienced rising inequality on the labor market ...

Sitaraman et al.: The Geography of Inequality

Ganesh Sitaraman, Morgan Ricks, and Christopher Serkin (all of Vanderbilt Law) examine the causes of widening ecnomic and other inequalities ...

Place-based policies and geographical inequalities - Oxford Academic

In most countries around the world, there are large disparities in wages, earnings, and income between cities and regions. The article by Overman and Xu in this ...

Geography | Inequality: the IFS Deaton Review

In recent years, geographical inequalities have also become important issues in driving political debate, and the 'levelling-up' agenda – the subject of a much- ...

The geographical dimension of income inequality in Greece

The geographies of income inequality are subject to the period of analysis, type of municipality and level of income. The geographies of inequality question the ...