The housing crisis is a mirror of the growing social divide in Lagos. The market is basically split between the ultra-rich and the poor.

As the Precision Public Health Asia conference approaches, Kent Buse and colleagues caution that the specialty risks becoming a high tech fix for deeply political problems In The Time Machine by HG ...

Every year on July 11th, the global community observes World Population Day, a United Nations initiative established in 1989 to draw attention to the urgency and importance of population issues. As we ...

More than a decade after the publication of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, critics challenge the book’s claims—and suggest growth, not redistribution, is the better answer.

While California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York are all well known for their expense, Louisiana is by far the lowest cost state to rank in the top five for income inequality.

Why do we continue to oppose solutions to economic inequality, like increasing minimum wage or taxing the rich more heavily or providing a basic income, all of which could help bring this gap down and ...

A conservation scientist, Oluwadamilola Ogundipe, has identified smarter ways to map and protect Nigeria’s biodiversity. “Nigeria’s biodiversity is vanishing at an alarming rate,” she said.

Universities Map Out New Investment Strategies to Deal With Tax Hike on Endowments GOP bill includes much higher levy on schools’ endowment income, potentially spurring shift in where billions ...

In addition, most estimates of income inequality have actually plateaued in the last two decades. Likewise, focusing on pretax income ignores the consequences of progressive taxation and, crucially, ...

Billionaires saw their wealth increase across the last four years due to policies put forth by the Federal Reserve, leading to financial boosts for the wealthy, economists say.

Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce poverty and inequality in South Africa.

For each state, we reviewed data on all cities, towns, and unincorporated communities with populations of 55,000 or more, and ranked them on income inequality, as reflected in the Gini coefficient.