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This is a list of sovereign states in the 1930s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1930 and 31 December 1939. It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty .
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Globally the poorest 50% hold 2% of the world's wealth, [note 4] compared with 76% for the richest 10%, of which 38% goes to the richest 1%, and 12% to the richest 0.01%. [note 5] As a result, wealth inequality will have increased by 50% between the poorest 50% and the richest 0.01% between 2008 and 2022. [30]
The World Between the Wars, 1919–39: An Economist's View (1974) Drinot, Paulo, and Alan Knight, eds. The Great Depression in Latin America (2014) excerpt; Eichengreen, Barry. Golden Fetters: The gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. 1992. Feinstein. Charles H. The European Economy between the Wars (1997) Garraty, John A.
America in the 1930s Extensive library of projects on America in the Great Depression from American Studies at the University of Virginia; The 1930s Timeline year by year timeline of events in science and technology, politics and society, culture and international events with embedded audio and video. AS@UVA
In most countries of the world, recovery from the Great Depression began in 1933. [8] In the U.S., recovery began in early 1933, [8] but the U.S. did not return to 1929 GNP for over a decade and still had an unemployment rate of about 15% in 1940, albeit down from the high of 25% in 1933.
The term was reportedly coined by Claudia Goldin and Robert Margo [1] in a 1992 paper, [2] and is a takeoff on the Great Depression, an event during which the Great Compression started. Share of pre-tax household income received by the top 1%, top 0.1%, and top 0.01%, between 1917 and 2005 [ 3 ] [ 4 ]