The global increase in income and wealth at the upper end of the scale is particularly worrying. The very richest people are ...

Inequality is now a visibility problem The concentration of wealth at the very top of the global distribution has moved from ...

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

Built on Inheritance, Not Merit The world is moving from the era of the billionaire to the age of the trillionaire, and the ...

UNDP report warns AI benefits may favor wealthy nations without intervention. Lack of skills, power and internet access risks leaving millions behind. AI offers potential gains in farming, health care ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

While much of the economics profession spent the weekend in Philadelphia discussing Larry Summers’s “secular-stagnation” thesis and other issues at the annual meeting of the American Economic ...

Today's hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It's a subject that deserves our attention, for it ...

This month’s G20 Summit in Johannesburg marked several historic firsts. For starters, it was the group’s first-ever summit in Africa, and the first to include the African Union as a full-fledged ...

It used to be that the battle to overcome inequality was about money. It was about helping the poor get better jobs so they could access a larger slice of the economic pie. What if that approach to ...