A major source of unease around AI is how its advance can make societies’ existing inequities even worse—a systemic ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in ...

The AI boom could drive unemployment and “potentially exacerbate inequality,” said CIMB Group’s Pedro Uria-Recio.

The interim government should prioritise reducing inequality and ensuring quality education, said speakers at a programme ...

Five millennia ago, wealth inequality—which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years—exploded. It has stayed ...

In the name of fighting income inequality, pundits in the UK and US are calling for wealth taxes as magic bullets that will ...

Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce ...

Investing more in agriculture, especially with external financing, offers the biggest gains in raising incomes and reducing ...

The world will never be completely equal. And maybe it shouldn’t be — let me explain. Egalitarianism, the idea of equality ...

A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

We provide new evidence that inflation inequality surged during the 2021–2023 cost-of living crisis.

Tackling failing local governments, reshaping housing and public transport to bridge spatial divides, and driving digital ...