Has income inequality got worse in the last 20 years? According to the most recent data, South Africa has the highest income inequality in the world, with a Gini coefficient of around 0.67. The Gini ...

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand The relationship between inequality and economic ...

For those of you who don’t remember the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (it even has its own acronym, GFC), it was no walk in the park. From late-2007 to mid-2009, a downturn in the US housing market ...

Discover Stiglitz's insights on how COVID-19 exposed health and economic inequalities and the potential backlash against globalization in the post-pandemic world.

Dom Byrne is a freelance radio and podcast producer based in Brighton, UK. Francisco Ferreira’s first exposure to inequality of opportunity was during his daily ride to school in São Paulo, Brazil, ...

I was recently asked to give the keynote address for a youth leadership conference. In the invitation, they informed me that the conference theme was inequality and that I had only 10 minutes to speak ...

This past weekend, Planet Money traveled to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting of the American Economic Association (as well as other economic associations). It's the biggest professional ...

In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality. By Manuela Andreoni Climate change wasn’t a big topic in the ...

The welfare state is essential for keeping the nonworking population out of poverty. But we shouldn’t discount the role of predistributive measures like strong unions and minimum wage laws in reducing ...