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 ...

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 ...

More than 100 global millionaires ... Educational inequality is viewed as especially problematic because it limits opportunities for people battling poverty to find a way out.

🌍 Climate change isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a significant driver of inequality worldwide. As resources dwindle and disasters strike, the gap between the rich and the poor widens.

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 ...