Inequality among people has become an increasingly salient issue globally, with data indicating a rise in inequality levels across many countries in recent years. This, in turn, has generated concerns ...

Donald J Trump knows meaning of the term ‘shithole country’; an unfortunate phrase he used in 2018 with primary reference to Haiti. This small article seeks to define said term with reference to the ...

Social scientists have urged policy-makers and governments to rethink how income inequality is measured. In a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the University of Exeter ...

President Obama will make economic inequality a central theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday, according to reports, highlighting the issue's emergence as a key political issue. Less ...

Across the U.S. income inequality is rising more and more, both on the national level and at the city level. Income inequality is an increasing problem in the United States and has been for several ...

Researchers propose a novel twist on the widely used Gini coefficient -- a workhorse statistical measure for gauging the gap between haves and have-nots. A new way of measuring wealth inequality ...

According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the global inequalities in income among the richest 10% and bottom 50% population have increased over the last two decades, while global inequalities ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Countries with high income inequality experience low upward mobility — the opportunity for a child ...

When the National Statistics Bureau announced China's 2012 GINI coefficient -- a measure of income inequality -- on January 21, the figure caught everyone by surprise, like a genie out of a bottle.