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 ...

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 ...

In 1980 the Brandt Report divided the world into the poor south and the rich north. Since that time global patterns of development ... that the Brandt line fails to display. The World Bank ...

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, ...

The “Brandt Line” has endured as a rough guide to the “Global South ... agenda that will advance our battle against poverty inequality and unemployment. “It is vital for us to be ...

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 ...