Common economic measurements, like GDP growth, tell us how fast the economic pie is growing. But it doesn’t tell us who’s getting a slice.

Does it matter what is happening to world income distribution (among all 6.2 billion people, regardless of where they live)? Amartya Sen, the recent Nobel laureate in economics, warns that arguing ...

Global wealth is concentrated at the top. This is true for all countries to varying degrees. The U.S. already ranks towards ...

Income inequality is a significant global issue that affects social cohesion, economic stability, and sustainable development. One of the best methods that governments can use to lessen this ...

economic inequality hasn’t risen as much as conventional wisdom would suggest. While these two arguments have the same ...

"Even when we expose people to identical levels of income inequality in controlled ... the factors that shape attitudes ...

Both the UN and several Nobel laureates have said that political and economic inequality is a driver of high carbon emissions ...

The Gini index, or Gini coefficient, is a summary measure of income inequality representing how income distribution varies compared with an equal outcome. States with the lowest Gini index figures ...

Of household income or of GDP per capita? Or even of mortality rates themselves, across different groups? Inequality among whom: should it be viewed at the level of individuals? Households? Countries?