To this point, it has been China doing most of the reshuffling. Between 1988 and 2018, a working-class Italian, for instance, has seen his income fall by 17 percentiles in global terms.

Global income inequality is a pressing issue, widening the gap between rich and poor and leading to social, political, and economic instability. One of the key causes is the unequal distribution ...

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.

Inequality by many measures is getting worse. But income disparity between all citizens of the world, adjusted for differences in prices between countries, has been falling for decades, economist ...

And economic inequality—the unequal distribution of income—is one strikingly visible dimension of global inequalities in well-being. In the early 1800s, individuals worldwide had more similar living ...

Income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for high-income nations such as the United States, Denmark and Canada are intrinsically linked – but a new study from Drexel University has taken a ...

The big picture on wealth, income, ecological, and gender inequality looks bad. Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better. Disparities today are about the same ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

How cryptocurrency could help tackle global income inequality . A look at the many ways that cryptocurrency can help to solve the problems associated with global income equality. Listen 0:00 .

This occurred even as global income inequality grew during much of the 20th century. Life expectancy, due in large part to medical knowledge coming from advanced (read: freer) countries, was a ...