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 ...

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 ...

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.

Global financial markets gave a clear vote of ... Picture-alliance/dpa/AP Markets were always going to respond to that but they are also battling with another problem: the lack of certainty ...

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 ...

AOC flies first-class to Bernie Sanders’ ‘Fight Oligarchy’ rally as critics pan lefty pol for battling inequality one ‘mimosa at a time’ ...

International food prices decreased by 14% between August 2014 and May 2015, dropping to a five-year low, according to the latest Food Price Watch. Cheap oil contributed to abundant global supplies of ...

This course considers the distribution and drivers of different forms of social-economic inequality (income, spatial, urban/rural, ethnic/racial), and asks whether and how they produce different forms ...

Inequality and injustice are at the heart of what makes climate change a problem for humanity. Fairness and global justice must therefore be at the core of the solution. So argues the climate ...