India’s income inequality is at its highest level since the Indian Income Tax Act was introduced in 1922, claims a recent paper by well-known economists Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty. The top one ...

Ask just about anyone in South Africa about the Gini coefficient and they will either stare at you blankly or tell you only two things: one, the Gini coefficient is the measure of income inequality in ...

Singapore’s definition of household income now includes income from non-work sources, including rental and investment income.

President Obama will make economic inequality a central theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday, according to reports, highlighting the issue's emergence as a key political issue. Less ...

Blesch, Kristin, Oliver P. Hauser, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "Measuring Inequality beyond the Gini Coefficient May Clarify Conflicting Findings." Nature Human Behaviour 6, no. 11 (November 2022): ...

Most of us would agree that poverty is a bad thing, at least in the abstract and general sense of the word. One definition of poverty is ‘the state of being extremely poor, of being inferior in ...