Education proves to be one of the most influential contributors to poverty alleviation and welfare improvement. Education not ...

There is a profound danger of presenting guesstimates as fact. Misinformation is disrespectful to the materially poor and creates an illusion that makes true redress even harder to pursue.

Income inequality is growing in the United States and is a cause for concern. Wealth concentration was high in the beginning of the twentieth century before falling from 1929 to 1978, but it has ...

India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world, and is likely to retain this status for the remainder of this century. In a ...

The weakening of India’s middle-income groups signals a worrying trend towards a hollowing-out of the economic centre ...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country's per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65.

The main findings show that in general, a basic income support grant has the potential to reduce poverty and inequality in South Africa. However, the effect varies based on the targeting mechanism ...