Inequality is the root of social evil,” according to the late Pope Francis. The French economist and inequality scholar ...

Latin America and the Caribbean could lift their per-capita output by 11% and cut inequality by 6% by making markets more ...

Among the most hotly debated topics in economic policy these days is a wealth tax on billionaires — a levy targeting the ...

The world is more unequal than ever, and South Africa remains among the countries with the highest levels of wealth and ...

Democrats are criticizing President Trump's affordability speech for not focusing that much on affordability. We learn more ...

Meanwhile, wealth is even more concentrated, i.e. the top 10% own three-quarters of global wealth, while the bottom half ...

Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of ...

It is said that an analysis of the Kindle readers of the Piketty book revealed that a typical reader got through 26 of its ...

Capitalism is often blamed as a single problem, but the reality is more specific. We explain how wealth distribution determines who capitalism serves. When money is concentrated, outcomes become ...

The World Happiness Report suggests young people have become Canada’s unhappiest age group, a complete reversal of ...

By allowing borrower countries to discuss technical issues and debt challenges, access capacity-building assistance, and ...

Despite years of initiatives, progress has been slow, and women remain significantly underrepresented across the tech ...