Today’s hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It’s a subject that deserves our attention, for it ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

Today’s hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It’s a subject that deserves our attention, for it ...

Today's hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It's a subject that deserves our attention, for it ...

David Dollar and Aart Kraay's argument that globalization is a "powerful force for equality" is strange in light of widely accepted empirical evidence that inequality within and between countries has ...

A prominent narrative claims that global inequality is increasing as improvements in the standard of living accrue mainly to a small elite, leaving much of the world’s population behind and even worse ...

Global income and wealth inequality have been a prime reason why the world suffers from economic crises each year. Income inequality has been a dark reality of the world for ages, initially created ...

There are a few facts that will always get a reaction of confusion and disbelief. No one knows where eels come from. The Renaissance began in an Italy with no tomatoes. Global inequality is falling.

THE POINT: The world’s assets are piling up in the hands of the few as growth is built on widening gaps. That’s not just unfair — it’s economically unsustainable. This year’s global wealth report by ...

Over the past quarter-century, the world has seen the deepest, most consequential decline in income inequality since the Industrial Revolution. And yet that progress is coming to an end, probably ...

There has never been a society without inequality and yet it’s perennially controversial to reference iniquity between rich and poor nations. But in the contentious debate over extending the Bush era ...

America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment with courage and integrity, the corporate media ...