Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

More so than perhaps every other wealthy, highly developed country, the United States stands out on the world stage for its ...

Zero represents perfect equality ... look at the concentration of wealth among the very rich is because “economic inequality spills over into political inequality,” Durlauf said.

During negative economic growth, the welfare of the poor should be the main focus area. Research from the University of Johannesburg shows how inequality can demolish most of the benefits of ...

Analysis: How disasters like Hurricane Ian can make inequality worse Research on Hurricane ... government survey has captured the LGBTQ+ economic experience.

We also document how extreme economic inequality contributes to corruption and mismanagement of public resources. We push governments to end abusive policies that contribute to poverty ...

Two narratives have emerged in the economic literature on technology ... If we assume that robots are almost perfect substitutes for human labor, the good news is that output per person rises. The bad ...

In a Monday-morning appearance on CNBC, Evercore founder Roger Altman praised the Fed for delivering "nearly perfect" economic conditions, citing strength in equities, profits, and employment.

Bringing prosperity to a much higher proportion of people in an economy is not complicated and it was established a very long ...