The big picture on wealth, income, ecological, and gender inequality looks bad. Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better. Disparities today are about the same ...

To this point, it has been China doing most of the reshuffling. Between 1988 and 2018, a working-class Italian, for instance, has seen his income fall by 17 percentiles in global terms.

Thus the long decline in global inequality that began around 1990 has come to an end—and gaps between rich and poor now look likely to widen, as poor countries take longer to recover from covid.

Global income inequality is a pressing issue, widening the gap between rich and poor and leading to social, political, and economic instability. One of the key causes is the unequal distribution ...

In his research, Milanovi ć articulates the shift in explanations for global inequality from the mid-19th century to the early 21st century. Through a combination of theory and real-world analysis, ...

How cryptocurrency could help tackle global income inequality . A look at the many ways that cryptocurrency can help to solve the problems associated with global income equality. Listen 0:00 .

How does poverty differ from economic inequality? Poverty is usually defined as not having the means to support basic nutrition, access to safe drinking water, shelter, education, and other needs.

According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the top 10% of the population in terms of wealth earns over half the global income, with the bottom 50% earning just 8.5% of the total global income ...

According to the report, only 100 companies are behind 40% of global investments in AI companies — and most are based in the U.S. and China — resulting in significant geographic consolidation.