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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...