Important: measures of wealth inequality are NOT measures of poverty! Global wealth has become much more concentrated as poverty has *simultaneously* DECLINED dramatically. Models that don't make this distinction are likely to make harmful prescriptions https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts …https://twitter.com/_JamieWhyte/status/1042153627530547206 …
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Agreed. Arguably why the head tax failed: Policymakers didn’t buy that it was a good tradeoff, even with the revenue going directly to a form of poverty reduction.
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