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HOI WAI JACKIE CHENG
Development economist at the UN, core team member of UN flagship reports, currently based in New York, and previously based in Beijing, Oxford and Hong Kong.
cheng3[at]un[dot]org
CORRELATION~=CAUSATION
Some charts from my previous work.
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What do the charts say?
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Income inequality and economic insecurity tend to go in the same direction
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Economic uncertainty and trust in national governments and the UN tend to go in opposite directions
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Population in lower-income countries tend to have lower digital trust
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Lower-wage occupations tend to require higher physical proxmity to others in the US
Women were disproportionately affected in the COVID recession, whereas men were more affected in the previous ones:
The case of the United States
(from UN DESA Sustainable Development Outlook 2021)
Women COVID unenmployment
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals and exacerbates inequality
(from UN DESA Sustainable Development Outlook 2021)
pandemic and inequality
About 45 per cent of the global population live in countries that experienced increase in within-country inequality during 2010-2019
(from UN DESA Sustainable Development Outlook 2021)
inequality change 2010-2019
Income inequality and economic insecurity
(from UN DESA Sustainable Development Outlook 2019)
Income inequality and economic insecurity
Economic uncertainty and trust in national government and the United Nations
(from UN DESA Sustainable Development Outlook 2019)
Economic uncertainty and trust
Power imbalances in data economy could reinforce each other
(from my working paper on data economy)
Power imbalances in data economy
Digital trust across countries of different income levels
(from UN DESA World Economic and Social Survey 2018)
Digital trust
National innovation system: three systemic features and some of their driving factors
(from World Economic and Social Survey 2018)
NIS - systemtic features
National innovation system: cross-country variation in the three key systemic features
(from UN DESA World Economic and Social Survey 2018)
NIS - cross country variation
Physical proximity to others at work and income level
(from UN DESA April 2020 Monthly Briefing on the World Economic Situation and Prospects)
phys proximity and income
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