Economist Jean Drèze receives the 2026 Global Inequality Research Award for his work on Indian poverty and rights-based ...

Discover what income inequality is, its primary causes, and how it's measured. Learn about its impact on society and explore ...

“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 ...

19 June 2023 - In 2015, the SDGs were agreed as an integrated and indivisible set of Goals that cannot be achieved one at a time or in siloes. The recently released ‘Report of the Secretary-General on ...

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 ...

Rates of child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand remain stubbornly high, despite the issue being the focus of considerable political attention while Jacinda Ardern was prime minister. In 2022, 120,000 ...

He was also recognised for his advocacy for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the National Food Security Act.

Thomas Piketty's ambitious plans for shrinking the workweek and capping the GDP of wealthy countries would hurt not just the ...

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others ...

A modern myth is that the more government taxes and spends, the more “equality” it brings. Brazil is proving that is not the ...

A city council is calling on residents and professionals to help shape a panel aimed at tackling long-standing inequality.