Inequality is now a visibility problem The concentration of wealth at the very top of the global distribution has moved from ...

A study by Naveen Kumar and Dibyendu Maiti shows climate warming widens inequality across regions—deepening wealth gaps and ...

The global increase in income and wealth at the upper end of the scale is particularly worrying. The very richest people are ...

UNDP report warns AI benefits may favor wealthy nations without intervention. Lack of skills, power and internet access risks leaving millions behind. AI offers potential gains in farming, health care ...

While much of the economics profession spent the weekend in Philadelphia discussing Larry Summers’s “secular-stagnation” thesis and other issues at the annual meeting of the American Economic ...

The planet’s richest 1% have stolen all the money. That’s pretty much the bottom line suggested in a new report on inequality from Oxfam, the international anti-poverty organization. (And just in time ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

The divergence seems to be due to higher income groups benefiting disproportionately from policy changes and also because ...

This month’s G20 Summit in Johannesburg marked several historic firsts. For starters, it was the group’s first-ever summit in Africa, and the first to include the African Union as a full-fledged ...

Rising wealth inequality within countries has helped to spur increases in global wealth inequality. If we assume the world trend to be captured by the combined experience of China, Europe and the ...

It used to be that the battle to overcome inequality was about money. It was about helping the poor get better jobs so they could access a larger slice of the economic pie. What if that approach to ...