In 2013, Cobham and Sumner proposed an alternative to the Gini co-efficient: the Palma ratio. They named it after José Gabriel Palma, a Chilean economist. Palma noticed that in most countries, the ...

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has never said if the horrific ‘cleansing’ project was an inspiration for the drama. However, he has previously said main character Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) backstory ...

Health spending and the anomaly of the 'inverse care law' GP numbers in Scotland fall for second year in a row Danny Dorling: Inequality in the UK - and ... "The reality is that all general practice ...

The first civil rights movement sought to end discrimination. The second means the fight isn’t over. Juan Williams is a ...

We look at what we know about two deadly incidents that unfolded in the United States on New Year’s Day: a truck attack in ...

An important struggle is being waged by workers at the Park City Mountain Resort, 30 miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, that ...

Over three-quarters of all lands have become permanently drier in the last three ... the International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that the number of climate migrants and refugees could ...

As a first step, we correlated annual real GDP growth ... increases in inequality (such as Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Lithuania, and Latvia) also had dismal growth performance. Link between income equality ...

Inequality has been on the ... based investment bank’s count, the number of American billionaires rose from 751 in 2023 to 835 in 2024. By contrast, China’s nine-digit club shrunk from 520 to 427 as a ...

Does it matter what is happening to world income distribution (among all 6.2 billion people ... that rising income inequality "should not be seen as negative," provided the incomes at the bottom do ...

There’s a precipice and we are standing on its edge. The world as it exists on the eve of 2025 is a world of war and genocide ...

Economist Thomas Piketty is known for his work on inequality. In India ... You have to say as incomes go up and as you have large real growth of income each year, this percentage should increase ...