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.

According to a new OECD report, government policies in Mexico helped reduce relative poverty by 3.9 percentage points from ...

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

This issue explores lessons for addressing poverty and inequality in Asia and the Pacific. It also covers topics including working after retirement, medical insurance, education expenditure, and ...

The findings and recommendations of the Scottish Women’s Budget Group Study on Gender Inequality and Poverty in Aberdeen are to be reviewed after the results were discussed at last week’s (11 June) ...

According to the United Nations, the world needs an extra $4 trillion every year to tackle some of the world’s biggest ...

Is the Gini coefficient still a relevant measure of inequality in South Africa? This article explores its limitations and advocates for the continued use of robust statistical measures in policy-makin ...

Read about the challenges of poverty and inequality in Costa Rica’s Northern Huetar Region, where fertile lands and tourism ...

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

Of the 700 million people worldwide living in extreme poverty, 40 per cent live in conflict-affected or fragile settings and ...

As to which states had a higher number of “dark” personalities, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Nevada, South Dakota, and New ...

This article is authored by Sruti MD, assistant professor, department of English, Shiv Nadar University, Chennai.