a column by Facundo Alvaredo, Lydia Assouad and Thomas Piketty for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Survey estimates suggest that inequality in the Middle East is not particularly high despite considerable political conflict.
This column uses new ‘distributional national accounts’ data to show that the Middle East is in fact the most unequal region in the world, with both enormous inequality between countries and large inequality within countries. The results emphasise the need to develop mechanisms of regional redistribution and to increase transparency on income and wealth data.
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