In 2017, a widely publicized paper by a research team led by Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that while the vast majority of American kids born in 1940 ended up better off at age 30 than their ...

Global trade and investment have lifted a billion people out of poverty in recent decades. At the same time, there have been big changes in inequality. The above chart, “Trends in global inequality ...

Background Although avoidable mortality in South Korea has fallen substantially, whether socioeconomic inequality gradients ...

South Africa is notorious for having gross income inequality. Its GINI coefficient–a standard for measuring income inequality–is one of the highest in the world. The World Bank computed it at 63.1 in ...