The world could have its first trillionaire within 10 years if current inequality trends continue, antipoverty group Oxfam International said in a report published Monday, reflecting the ...

Read more: Factors seen as contributing to economic inequality Views of other forms of inequality. Nearly a decade and a half after the Occupy Wall Street protests in the U.S. – which coincided with ...

But in a scholarly battle over inequality, the stakes are rather higher. Research by a trio of French economists—Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman—has popularised the notion ...

Economists have been arguing about trends in global inequality—and the quality of the data that lie beneath them—for decades. When it comes to the world’s richest people, ...

In 2022, the Gini coefficient, a key measure of income inequality, rose to 0.32, the first time the figure has risen above ...

24 April 2025 - Economic insecurity, staggering levels of inequality, declining ... reveals trends that are threatening communities and demand immediate, decisive policy action.

Today, think tank SustainAbility released its view of the key sustainability developments during 2015 in a webinar, “Mid-Year ‘State of Play’ Sustainability Trends.” Its latest research identifies 10 ...