Last month, researchers from 67 nations wrote an open letter to United Nations secretary-general António Guterres and World Bank president Ajay Banga, urging them to “redouble efforts to address ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper identifies five key issues that are important for the continued efforts to tackle gender inequality: (i) gender ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation There are competing narratives about artificial intelligence’s impact on inequality. Some argue AI will exacerbate economic ...

More than 230 economists and political leaders have called on the United Nations and the World Bank to do more to tackle the widening gap between the rich and poor around the world, a problem they say ...

Working out who earns what is surprisingly tricky. Both the very rich, who sometimes try to keep their wealth from the taxman, and the very poor, who are sometimes mistrustful of clipboard-wielding ...

COVID-19 WAS never going to be good for the poor. At first, however, the disease was not associated with rising inequality. Richer economies tended to suffer larger declines in GDP per person than ...

Is inequality back as a political issue? Senator Bernie Sanders seems to think so. He is leading a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour that has drawn thousands of people in several Midwestern cities. Railing ...

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 ...

A key mea­sure of US income inequality rose to a new record in 2021, the first year of President Joe Biden’s term. The so-called Gini Index rose by 1.2% last year to 0.494, according to data released ...