The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

For those of you who don’t remember the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (it even has its own acronym, GFC), it was no walk in the park. From late-2007 to mid-2009, a downturn in the US housing market ...

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand The relationship between inequality and economic ...

I was recently asked to give the keynote address for a youth leadership conference. In the invitation, they informed me that the conference theme was inequality and that I had only 10 minutes to speak ...

Imagine society as a ladder with 10 rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality. By Manuela Andreoni Climate change wasn’t a big topic in the ...

To explore how public sentiment can influence minimum wage policies, we zoomed in on protests as a signal of public opinion across the US. We analysed data from over 130,000 protests across US ...

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of inequality and its contributing factors in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North ...

The welfare state is essential for keeping the nonworking population out of poverty. But we shouldn’t discount the role of predistributive measures like strong unions and minimum wage laws in reducing ...

Christopher Pollard does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

The relationship between inequality and economic growth is a complex one, especially in Africa. Inequality is the result of a host of factors, including policy choices, institutional legacies and ...