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 ...

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 ...

How has many developing countries' increased participation in international trade affected their economic growth rates ... of international integration—or globalization—for inequality and poverty? In ...

Who wins? Who loses? Why? Economists use models that are substantiated by statistical analysis to study important issues such as economic growth, unemployment, productivity and efficiency, poverty and ...

Strong economic growth during the pre-transition period of 2007-08 to 2011-12 did not reduce poverty and contributed instead to widening inequality in Afghanistan. According to the latest Afghanistan ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where access to clean energy not only powers homes but also lifts millions out of poverty and reduces ...

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 ...