In my last column, I wrote about Oxfam and the concept of income inequality as the major economic problem in the world today.

By Brasil 247 - Brazil reached in 2024 the highest levels of household income and the lowest levels of poverty and inequ ...

Brazil recorded its best results in income, inequality, and poverty since this time series began in 1995, according to a ...

The process of economic development is inherently inegalitarian, as it does not begin in every part of the economy simultaneously (Lewis 1954)Studies have also shown widening interstate disparities ...

This study examines the nexus between inequality, household debt, and social protection in Thailand, focusing on their interrelation during the COVID-19 shock. Using data from the Thailand Household ...

An automatic cost-of-living adjustment, or CoLA, is effectively a system of wage indexation designed to address inflation, ...

Between 2010 and 2022, Bangladesh lifted 34 million people out of poverty, one of the most significant poverty reductions in ...

The study also found that poverty among the poorest households could fall by four percentage points from the current 37.2% ...

We found that differences in work history – particularly full-time employment – account for nearly 29% of the gender pay gap ...

Bangladesh lifted 34 million people out of poverty between 2010 and 2022, but the pace of progress has slowed dramatically ...

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed longstanding inequalities in healthcare access worldwide, particularly in Brazil. These disparities were especially evident in access to hospital beds and vaccines, ...

The minister has stated that he would not remove medical scheme tax credits because doing so “would be an attack on the middle class”. There is no justification for the “subsidy” for “higher earners”.