By 2018, inequality was between 35.3 and 49.4% lower than it was in 1990.” In other words, this progress has been widely shared, to the great benefit of the people at the bottom of the distribution.

How does poverty differ from economic inequality? Poverty is usually defined as not having the means to support basic nutrition, access to safe drinking water, shelter, education, and other needs.

Thus, the loss to global economic output from the severe fragmentation sought by some of the most fervent tribunes of deglobalization could range from $7 trillion to $12 trillion — every year.

Read more: Factors seen as contributing to economic inequality Views of other forms of inequality. Nearly a decade and a half after the Occupy Wall Street protests in the U.S. – which coincided with ...

A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind the erosion of democratic norms and institutions: economic inequality. Published in PNAS , this large cross-national ...

Wrestling With Inequality, Some Conservatives Redraw Economic Blueprint A growing number of Republican politicians and theorists are challenging party orthodoxy on pocketbook issues, corporate ...

Jamie Dimon, Chairman, J.P. Morgan Chase: It is the most prosperous, most innovative, best economy the world has ever seen. This world of ours lifted billions of people out of poverty.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said Wednesday that the world needs to shift to a new trading system that aims to promote inclusiveness, resilience and sustainability--saying that the ...

Second, the shift toward localization reflects broader concerns about income inequality and the equitable distribution of economic benefits. Income inequality in the U.S. has been on the rise for ...

image: “Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks.

WASHINGTON — To reduce racial inequality in the U.S. criminal justice system, local, state, and federal government should explore ways to reduce police stops and searches, jail detention, prison ...