Progress in reducing global poverty has essentially halted: by 2030, nearly 7 percent of the world's population—nearly 600 million people—will still struggle in extreme poverty. Within-country ...

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 320 pp., $29.95 (cloth). From assessing inequality in the Byzantine Empire to musing over where people fall on the global distribution of ...

This growing inequality is no accident. For too long, corporations and an ultra-wealthy few have rigged the system at the expense of ordinary working families, extracting endless wealth, resources, ...

Inequality is a notoriously challenging concept on which to make definitive statements Consider first the global distribution of COVID-19 mortality itself. Using the concept of life years lost to the ...

Global wealth is concentrated at the top. This is true for all countries to varying degrees. Yet, according to the World Inequality Database, in almost all nations, the richest 10 percent hold ...

We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human rights and enables private actors to harm communities, workers, and the environment. Our work is driven ...

To address the global wage crisis and income inequality, the International Labour Organisation has launched its first-ever programme focused exclusively on living wages. The initiative was ...

Global growth is expected to decelerate markedly from 5.5% in 2021 to 4.1% in 2022 and 3.2% in 2023 as pent-up demand dissipates and as fiscal and monetary support is unwound across the world.

This course is available on the MSc in International Social and Public Policy, MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Development), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Education), ...

A new United Nations assessment has raised concerns over the growing inequality in the global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, pointing to the sharp concentration of AI innovation and ...

The study's findings offer a comprehensive view of global air pollution and ecological inequality, presenting a powerful tool for policymakers to guide interventions. "Our study provides a ...