In a series of letters to each other, Robert Wade and Martin Wolf offer opposing answers to the question “Are global poverty and inequality getting worse?” Mr. Wade, a professor of political economy ...

The global economy is still being shaped by two persistent problems: weak growth and inequality across the world. While each of these issues is difficult to address on its own, when they intersect, ...

The Poverty, Inequality and Human Development team conducts research across a wide range of topics that broadly covers issues related to improving the wellbeing of people, particularly less well-off ...

Pope Leo XIV, writing in the first major document of his pontificate, has denounced the “dictatorship” of economic inequality ...

Today's hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It's a subject that deserves our attention, for it ...

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 ...

The global economic outlook is not quite as dark as expected even just three months ago, a top International Monetary Fund official said on Thursday, citing better-than-anticipated economic data from ...

Dom Byrne is a freelance radio and podcast producer based in Brighton, UK. Francisco Ferreira’s first exposure to inequality of opportunity was during his daily ride to school in São Paulo, Brazil, ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

The report revealed that 71 per cent of a worker’s earnings is still determined by circumstances of birth, such as country and gender.

The world has still not done enough to improve access to safe drinking water, the United Nations says in a new report - Copyright AFP/File AHMAD AL-BASHA The world ...

9 July 2019 - In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a wealth of action had ...