The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

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This year, more than 10 cities across the country will experiment with a policy called guaranteed income. The gist: Cities can help their poorest residents by giving them no-strings-attached cash ...

The contexts differ, but the underlying structure is surprisingly similar. In developing economies, exclusion is often driven ...

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Learn how to use the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), the interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared ...

In September 2015, 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed themselves to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are ...

The Mexican government on Friday claimed that for the first time in history more  Mexicans are categorized as middle class ...

Economist Prabhat Patnaik highlights India's growing inequality and advocates for wealth and inheritance taxes to support ...