Meanwhile, the number of people experiencing poverty remains essentially ... extraordinary levels of inequality in the U.S. and globally. Oxfam’s new report, “Takers, Not Makers,” illustrates how our ...

Mainstream economists and the media “warn” us about the dangers of “income inequality.” But is income inequality really an ...

High inequality can reflect a lack of opportunities for ... Low-income settings: prioritize poverty reduction by delivering economic growth and reduce multidimensional poverty. Middle-income countries ...

Poverty and social and economic inequality have been clearly demonstrated to be causal factors in poor health. But it is also clear that poor health is an important factor in producing not only ...

The research comes just ahead of the World Economic Forum ... According to Oxfam, an organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice, three billionaires currently hold wealth ...

Rodgers III, vice president and director of the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank ... While these families may not meet the federal benchmark of poverty, he said, they struggle ...

The research report, ‘Double Trouble’, investigates the relationship between economic inequality and poverty in the UK and examines the trends in relative income poverty rates and income inequality ...

The Economic Justice and Rights Division works ... Our work is driven by rigorous, thorough, and objective investigations. The Poverty and Inequality program exposes policies and practices that ...

At Oxfam, we know that climate change, poverty, and inequality are linked ... and long standing gender, racial and economic inequalities mean that historically marginalized communities are the hardest ...

Java, with its high population density and diverse socio-economic conditions, requires a more segmented approach to poverty alleviation. For instance, the challenges of poverty in urban areas such ...

From January to September last year, the country’s economic growth averaged 5.8 percent. The WEF report showed poverty and inequality as the second top risk for the Philippines for the next two ...

We also document how extreme economic inequality contributes to corruption and mismanagement of public resources. We push governments to end abusive policies that contribute to poverty ...