The richest one per cent of Indians now control over 40 per cent of the nation's wealth while the bottom half share just 6.4 ...

In this paper, the authors ask what role taxation can or might play in reducing inequality in low and middle-income countries ...

The numbers draw a stark picture of inequality. India’s top 1% hold about 40% of the country’s wealth, compared to 35% in the ...

Back to the drawing board for the basic income grant Meanwhile the Department of Social Development will ask for another extension of the Social Relief of Distress grant, MPs told.

The studies in this compendium present comprehensive evidence on income distribution during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on new data on wages and prices. They also consider ...

Archaeologists have created a global database of over 55,000 ancient housing floor plans to explore how inequality developed and varied across societies before industrialization. Their findings show ...

Comparing the size of dwellings at archaeological ruins, researchers found increasing wealth inequality over thousands of years. Technology accelerates the trend, first in the Old World and then ...

Global income inequality captures income differences among all individuals around the world. Global inequality around the world increased from 1820 to 1990 as incomes in richer countries grew faster ...

Interview by Sara Wexler Thanks in part to movements like Occupy and Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns, it’s no secret that the United States, and the world, are grossly unequal in wealth and ...

President Donald Trump’s strategies to address income inequality in 2025 are drawing mixed reactions from economists, policymakers, and the public. While his administration has introduced ...

New research has found that income inequality is very similar in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland despite marked differences in demographics, working patterns, wage levels and the tax ...