He is particularly interested in global health ... The new World Inequality Report chart relies much more heavily on administrative data, in particular income tax records. The researchers argue ...

With two traditional measures and two new ones, the study adds much to our knowledge of inequality. The first two measures are of wealth and income. As the chart below shows, current disparities are ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

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 ...

Shifts to the distribution of income within countries ceased to push inequality higher (indeed, in some recent years within-country shifts served to reduce global inequality on net). But this ...

In an essay in Foreign Affairs, Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic details how actual “global inequality,” as he defines it — that is, the income disparity between all citizens of ...

We should beware of false narratives and not ignore global data. So warns Branko Milanovic, a leading expert on inequality, in the current issue of Foreign Affairs. He presents data going back to ...

This analysis looks at how cryptocurrency can help close the income inequality gap ... citizens and businesses to participate in the global economy either through trade, commerce or otherwise ...

Notably, global inequality is worse than inequality within countries. And economic inequality—the unequal distribution of income—is one strikingly visible dimension of global inequalities in ...