This issue explores lessons for addressing poverty and inequality in Asia and the Pacific. It also covers topics including working after retirement, medical insurance, education expenditure, and ...

An additional P200 per day could significantly improve the quality of life for millions of low-income workers and their families” WHILE calls for a ...

In this context, Kaldor opined that since savings are a prerequisite for rapid growth, it was important to concentrate income in the hands of a few people with a large marginal propensity to save.

Climate change may be global, but it is not gender-neutral. And the faces most affected are not the ones most heard. Floods, ...

High levels of income inequality weaken support for raising the minimum wage, which in turn could further worsen income inequality as people believe this is the way things should be, according to ...

Bermuda has seen a dramatic increase in economic inequality in a very short period of time. According to the Tax Justice Network, the average household income in 1993 was $65,676, while median ...

The penchant for winning the big stakes can turn into gambling addiction... Gambling in any form is a losing bet―except for ...

Did you know that the Filipino poor have significantly declined over the last 20 years in both percentage and number, and ...

While South Korea’s powerful professionals are busy erecting barriers to protect their turf, another group is being left ...

As India becomes the world's fourth-largest economy with a projected GDP of $4.19 trillion in FY26, Neelkanth Mishra, Chief Economist at Axis Bank, said rising inequality is a structural challenge ...

The median U.S. family saw its real income double in the three decades after World War II. The middle class grew from around 10% of us to two-thirds of us by the late 1970s. But dark clouds were ...