The long arc of global economic history has often pivoted on the fulcrum of trade—its expansion or constraint and the ideologies that underpin it. In the centuries preceding World War II, mercantilism ...

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 ...

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, ...

$29.95 (cloth). From assessing inequality in the Byzantine Empire to musing over where people fall on the global distribution of income, Branko Milanovic has made a name for himself as an innovative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please join the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development for a discussion on how to enable more of the world to harness the benefits of large-scale AI applications ...

OBJECTIVE We leverage anonymous, aggregate data on the online populations of Google and Facebook users available from their advertising platforms to fill existing data gaps and measure global digital ...