Financing is the engine of development. And right now, this engine is sputtering,” U.N. Secretary General António Guterres ...

A big debate hits Washington. The House okayed a huge budget bill. President Trump strongly supports it. Republicans call it ...

Dispiriting poverty metrics and limited progress toward ... integration into global value chains and accelerated income convergence with advanced economies. Meanwhile, entrenched inequality and the ...

India will launch its first nationwide Household Income Survey in February 2026, offering policymakers direct data on ...

India’s push for digital IDs and algorithms is creating a hidden layer of inequality. The Aadhaar system, which forms the ...

Our exclusive survey shows that a majority of Americans understand just how unequally wealth is distributed in the ...

The San Francisco supervisors are finally going to have a serious discussion about addressing both economic inequality and the budget deficit by imposing local income and wealth taxes on the very rich ...

50. Utah Bottom 20% average income: $24,390 Top 20% average income: $276,288 Top 5% average income: $483,169 Top 5% share of wealth: 20.6% Gini index (0-1): 0.4277 Methodology: For this piece ...

Across 41 states, the bottom 20% make less than $20,000 on average. Meanwhile, the top 20% earn more than $250,000 in 25 states -- accounting for half of America. While it's not exactly a new ...

Missing income data are pervasive and consequential. From the U.S. Census’s Current Population Survey (CPS) to the EU’s SILC datasets, item and unit non-response rates can reach up to 50%, and they ...

A groundbreaking study titled "Decomposing Income Inequality: The Role of the Happiness Gap" published in Healthcare (2025, Vol. 13, Article 1401) uncovers a crucial but underexplored driver of income ...