Average incomes have been increasing faster in China, in India, in Brazil, in the emerging world than in Europe and than in the USA, because of this effect, you have a reduction of global inequalities between those who live in China and those who live in other parts of the world.

Lucas Chancel

Lucas Chancel (born in 1987 in Grenoble) is a French economist. He is Codirector and Senior economist at the World Inequality Lab of the Paris School of Economics and teaches at Sciences Po. He is also Codirector of the World Inequality Database and Research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. He works on global inequality, European political economy and Sustainable development. He authored and co-authored several books on these topics.

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