Even if the precision of the World Bank’s inequality estimates is discounted, a significant improvement in India’s ...

These claims came under the heading of Constituency Office Operating Expenses, which suggests that our political parties ...

It must free millions of Nigerians from poverty by building a new political and economic system that works for everyone, not just a fortunate few”. These words ring even truer today.

A new report from the AFL-CIO adds another point to a growing pool of data highlighting income and wealth inequality in ...

In India, where welfare programmes have boosted the living standards of the poor, consumption will inevitably be higher and ...

Some Nova Scotia Chiefs and negotiators held a press conference earlier this week to call on the Canadian Prime Minister to ...

The Founders would be horrified by these developments because they believed great wealth in politics would corrupt and destroy the republic. Those beliefs were shaped by a range of influences: the ...

Darren Walker needed to be convinced of his new book's relevance. The outgoing Ford Foundation president feared that “The ...

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.

The Poverty, Inequality, and Human Development Team of the World Bank Research Group conducts rigorous research across a wide range of topics. On the topic of inequality, the team has two main ...

The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others.

Gender discrimination doesn’t always end after a woman dies. Newspapers have long treated women differently in the number, wording and presentation of obituaries. Since the 18th century ...