“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Scholars have identified that inequality is a notable detriment to well-being. Status-signaling luxury expenditure is taken as a symptom of the reduced well-being associated with income inequality.

This graph tells you that the richest 1 percent has captured more than half of income growth during periods of economic expansion in the 21st century. If more people knew that, would they support ...

Defenders of the economic status quo in America continue to assert that economic inequality (1) doesn't exist, (2) isn't as bad as you think, or (3) is actually good for everybody. That's despite ...

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Mauritius is often cited as one of the few African success stories and this is with good reason. Destined for economic failure in the aftermath of independence due to its high poverty level and other ...

When the European Union embraced the concept of double materiality in the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, mandating that investors consider risks corporations externalize onto people, ...

Inequalities that use < or > symbols are plotted with a dashed line to show that the line is not included in the region. Inequalities that use ≤ or ≥ symbols are plotted with a solid line to show that ...