Yet inequality remains high: the top 1 percent of earners together capture 17 percent of national income, with only 14 percent being shared by the bottom 50 percent. With an income Gini coefficient of ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has made gains in reducing poverty, but it is among the countries with the highest income inequality in East Asia, which the World Bank said could be ...

During this past month of November, there were two seemingly unrelated news about the macroeconomic situation in the Philippines. However, these news items have made me even more convinced that ...

In a March 2017 report, the Asian Development Bank found that income inequality is increasing: together with China, India, Indonesia and Russia, the Philippines is not seeing equality rise with GDP ...

With an income Gini coefficient of 42.3 percent in 2018, the Philippines had one of the highest income inequality rates in East Asia. The wealthiest 1 percent of earners capture 17 percent of national ...

The economist said it is universally accepted that income inequality is high in the West ... Press Club award for his reporting on the Philippines. In 1984 he was named the first editorial page ...

But at the structural level, our picture of American inequality also seems to be changing. According to some measures, U.S. income inequality hasn’t meaningfully grown over the last decade ...

But what if it isn’t true? What if income inequality, far from rising to dangerously high levels in the 75 years since World War II, has actually fallen in the postwar period? What if all the ...