ISLAMABAD: A World Bank stu­dy says the General Sales Tax (GST) has the largest marginal contribution to the national poverty ...

In an ideal world, equality would be a universal reality, transcending social status and class. However, the stark truth is ...

How Rich Are the Superrich? A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per ...

BY ZUHUMNAN DAPEL Recently, a former Nigerian president sparked a wave of national reactions with his statement: ...

While the surface trigger was a display of wealth by the prime minister’s family, the root cause is deep-seated tension over ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s US tour was diplomatically successful, but beneath the polished optics lie stark ...

The recent Pahalgam attack has once again escalated tensions between Pakistan and India, fueling fears of military ...

Spend a few minutes browsing political commentary or scrolling social media and you will discover a seemingly settled truth: inequality in the West is soaring, the middle class is being hollowed out, ...

U.S. Economic and Trade issued on May 12, global attention to such a tariff war, unprecedented in scale, was put on hold.

This book provides a vivid account of the nature and causes of social and economic inequality in the Indian subcontinent in contemporary times. Along with India, the countries considered for the study ...

Zimbabwe, a country striving to transition from decades of economic volatility to sustainable growth, has much to gain from ...

To address this shortcoming, the concepts of well-being losses and socio-economic resilience—the ability to experience asset losses without a decline in well-being—have been proposed. This paper uses ...