This weekend, residents of Spain’s Canary Islands are coming out in force to protest against mass tourism. People on the archipelago have been growing increasingly vocal about its struggles with ...

A new policy consensus is needed to restore trust and social cohesion 24 April 2025 - Economic insecurity, staggering levels of inequality, declining social trust and social fragmentation are ...

he American philosopher Michael Sandel and the French economist Thomas Piketty are among the world’s most influential political thinkers. In their writing on inequality and the moral limits of markets ...

Now, in his new work, Piketty has turned his attention, in part, to climate change and the ways in which inequality could help both explain the issue and help point to solutions. When we spoke ...

Starting with perceptions of inequality, we found striking differences across political orientations. Back in 2019, Conservative and Liberal voters shared identical views: in both groups, 17 per cent ...

Inequality reduced in urban and rural India from 2011-12 to 2022-23, as shown by the Household Consumption Expenditure survey. The Gini coefficient declined, indicating decreased income inequality.

As Indians heads to the poll this season, a new chapter is being written in a very old debate about poverty and inequality in India. This debate has been stirred up by the release of new data from ...

First, let’s look at income inequality. By 2022-23, the report states, 22.6% of India’s national income went to just the top 1% in the country, the highest in the last 100 years.

And as class analysis faded among professional economists in the 20th century, so did studies of economic inequality. Branko Milanović: To some extent, yes.

Though there are many routines and forms in which the people belonging to minority groups are given inequality and maltreatment, the worst kind of discrimination is in any educational setting.