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

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

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

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

It comes as a new report from the WHO revealed targets designed to help tackle global health inequalities within a generation ...

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

With April 15’s tax day still fresh in mind, this Behind the News explores the origin of the federal income tax and finds ...

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

Inequality in the UK has fallen since the onset of Covid in 2020 as disposable incomes for the highest earning households ...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country's per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a ...