Unsafe drinking water is not just a technical problem. It is a sign of deeper inequality, concludes a new investigation of the state of water quality in 138 countries by the United Nations University ...

In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility. “The critical edge of 1963 was blunted in the legislation of 1964, as ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in ...

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

We continue to provide new analysis on inequalities and poverty trends, particularly in relation to the expansion of digital technologies and their impact on the lives of the poorest and most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Teresa Ghilarducci Ph.D. is an Economics Professor. With the regularity of Halley’s comet, but more frequent occurrences, the ...

Before he died on Sept. 4 at the age of 99, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton left us with stark warnings about President Donald Trump and the American right. One of the country’s leading experts on how ...

It will take multiple centuries to end poverty at the rate we're going, according to a recently published report. Oxfam International published its inequality report this month, detailing a slew of ...

When in 2022 the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released figures indicating that at least 63% of people living in the country, about 133 million persons, were multidimensionally poor, fresh ...