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Inequality across the world

Kimuli Kasara and Pavithra Suryanarayan (Columbia): When Do the Rich Vote Less than the Poor and Why? Explaining Turnout Inequality Across the World. From ThinkProgress, a symposium on The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic (and part 2 and part 3). Jason Hickel on the truth about extreme global inequality: The richest 300 people on earth have more wealth than the poorest 3 billion — almost half the world’s population. Lynn Stuart on the 10 worst people on Forbes 2013 Billionaires list. Global poverty is declining and may be eradicated altogether in some countries in the next 20 years, a new study by the University of Oxford has found. From The Globalist, Branko Milanovic on inequality and democratic capitalism. How can workers of the world really unite? Kris Notaro wants to know.