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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity ... contributing to concerns about rising inequality within countries. This chapter draws on official data and projections to show that within countries, ...

My reading of the evidence suggests that none of the eight alternative measures clearly shows that world income distribution has become more equal over the past twenty years. Seven of the eight show ...

The shock waves of the COVID-19 pandemic have reverberated throughout the world. But the latest data ... had there been no pandemic. The results show that although people at all income levels ...