Income inequality between countries may have eased in recent decades, but the gap within nations continues to widen. Take France: Its poverty rate clocked 15.4 percent in 2023, the highest since ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

While decarbonization and waste reduction gets most of the attention these days, investors, regulators, and consumers also expect transparency on social impact. This transition to zero inequality ...

The 2025 G20 Global Inequality Report was a timely attempt to address inequality. However, one must be critically aware that ...

Early morning magenta light illuminates clouds and the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the foot of the Grand Tetons near Jackson, Wyoming. Teton County, home to the affluent and famous Jackson Hole, has ...

Christopher Pollard does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades. Branko Milanovic, 2017.

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of inequality and its contributing factors in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality. By Manuela Andreoni Climate change wasn’t a big topic in the ...

Imraan Valodia and the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies receive funding from a number of local and international foundations that support academic research. South Africa is ranked one of the ...

There is a broad consensus that the impacts of climate change are not experienced equally. According to the World Bank, “The poorest and most vulnerable people bear the brunt of climate change impacts ...