Inequalities that use ≤ or ≥ symbols are plotted with a solid line to show that the line is included in the region. For example, this graph shows the inequality \(x \textless -1\). This can be ...

As suffering and poverty have risen, some data show an increase in another extreme ... That approach is the same as measuring inequality in an imaginary distribution of all individuals in the world, ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. From India to Bolivia, it was always the women who knew exactly how much water their family needed. When photographer ...

it also describes how the world entered the COVID-19 crisis already in a weak position from a global poverty reduction perspective. During the pandemic, large and unequal job and income losses were ...

But even though in the eyes of the law women and men are equal, there are still some glaring gender inequality examples that show equality ... to be in the tough world of politics, but the more ...

A study that surveyed the same Australian households every year for the last two decades has found economic inequality is at a 20-year-high. The HILDA survey, released by the University of ...

What does the evidence show? Therefore, a lot is at stake in the question of whether world income distribution has become more, or less, equal over the past twenty years or so. It turns out that there ...

Cars stayed off the roads. Demand for oil cratered. On one day in April, the value of oil fell below $0, a sign of a world turned upside down. The pandemic gave many people more time at home and a ...