The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

Economic activity and development are unevenly distributed across regions of the world and within any country. In other words, where someone lives can determine their economic and social well-being.

Aotearoa New Zealand’s new Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, has said we should look at ways to make the tax system fairer. Finance associate minister David Parker made a similar point almost a year ago, though there was little real action after his comments.

In shifting our gaze from equality, we lose sight of the most marginalised

How Labour's economic handling of the Covid crisis created an explosion in inequality. By Elliot Crossan

“Tighter policy…appears to prevent many lower-income families from buying homes,” Fed economist Daniel Ringo explains in a new working paper.

The richest one percent of India’s population owns over 40 percent of the country’s wealth while the poorest half has just 3 percent. Wealth inequality in India has only sharpened since the pandemic, and the number of billionaires rose from 102 in 2020 to 166 in 2022, according to an…

Crises in productivity and wealth inequality won’t be solved with ideas from the 80s, says the author and historian David Edgerton

The Patriotic Millionaires called upon Davos conference attendees to address wealth inequality.

Carmen Villegas, 56, a housewife in Santiago, was one of the millions of Chileans who turned out to vote for Gabriel Boric in 2021, propelling the young leader to the presidential palace amid optimism over his plans to reduce deep-seated inequality.

Nobel prize-winning economist calls for new top rate of income tax and 2-3% wealth tax on fortunes

Peruvians speak up about inequality as President Dina Boluarte declares state of emergency in Lima