In my last column, I wrote about Oxfam and the concept of income inequality as the major economic problem in the world today. This form of inequality that has led to a few hundred multi-billionaires ...

Everybody recognises the stark inequalities that exist in income and wealth across society. Increasingly, these gaps shape ...

The very richest people are amassing fortunes while ordinary people’s lives stagnate. But there are policies that can reduce ...

Last year, household net asset inequality in South Korea deepened to its highest level since records began. The Gini ...

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 ...

Mexico leads Latin America in poverty reduction, owing primarily to recent minimum wage increases, according to a United ...

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 ...

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

Global inequality is of course vastly higher than any one in-country inequality. But that one’s easy – we’ve rich countries ...

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

This month’s G20 Summit in Johannesburg marked several his toric firsts. For starters, it was the group’s first-ever summit ...

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