Inequality is rising in many countries across the world along many different ... with an economist, listen to our talk with MIT’s Duflo about her research on global poverty and how to alleviate ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024 ... In a recent study, we analyzed how different ways of funding agricultural investment would affect inclusive growth ...

The most common tool economists use to measure different ... live in poverty, according to the World Bank. Inequality, on the other hand, is about the distribution of wealth or income across a society ...

The Poverty, Inequality and Human Development team conducts research across a wide range of topics that broadly covers issues related to improving the wellbeing ... Sandra Rozo, Senior Economist at ...

Other policies that directly address low family income, such as the earned income tax credit, are more effective at reducing poverty. Raising the minimum wage has become a popular proposal to combat ...

The disparity highlights the inequality at the heart of American education: Starting very early, children from rich and poor families receive vastly different ... professor of poverty and ...

whose research and work as an economist at the University of Maryland focuses on issues that most would consider progressive: poverty, inequality, family and children. "I'm not prioritizing one.

Ndlozi and Moeletsi Mbeki, political economist and chair of the South ... responsibility for South Africa’s unemployment, inequality, and poverty. “[Unemployment] is the fault of the state ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024 ... In a recent study we analysed how different ways of funding agricultural investment would affect inclusive growth ...