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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's meeting with Donald Trump marked a minor distraction from the internal challenges ...

From expensive Connecticut rent and high annual income to the number of impoverished residents, stark disparities and ...

Despite a brief market scare, the richest 10 Americans got $365 billion richer over the past year, according to a new ...

[W]hile most Americans do not hold highly authoritarian views, a substantial minority does: 43% of Americans score high on the Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (RWAS), while 41% score high on the ...

The House plan would disproportionately benefit top earners and sacrifice significant federal revenue — without increasing ...

On what measures can be adopted to tackle abuses, Oragwu said: “To tackle the abuse of tax breaks and waivers, Nigeria must ...

Based in Guadalajara, Mexico, Jaramillo-Molina sees commonly held ideas like meritocracy as propping up a cultural hegemony that preserves economic inequality while blunting calls for redistribution.