Mama Mignonne teaches mathematics at a primary school in Musanze District. Every evening, after her tudents have left her classroom, she sits with a notebook and a pen, writing out the next day's ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

Economic liberalisation brought growth, but it also delivered deep and accelerating inequality. In concrete terms, these ...

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

Drawing on millions of mobile-device location records paired with 30,000 gun violence incidents, UC Santa Barbara sociologist Masoud Movahed has quantified how shootings reduce the number of people ...

Lane Kenworthy’s Dec. 14 Ideas essay, “Almost everything you’ve heard about inequality is wrong,” offers a useful challenge to the popular belief that reducing income inequality is a cure-all for ...

The extent of inequality in the world is enormous and getting worse, but redistributive policies alone won’t fix it, explains Michael Roberts The latest World Inequality Report 2026 reveals the stark ...

Artificial intelligence risks increasing inequality between developed and developing countries, a United Nations report has warned. The report, titled “The Next Great Divergence” and released by the ...

In our hyper-connected era, digital access isn't optional, it’s foundational. Yet for too many families, reliable broadband remains out of reach. This modern inequality isn’t just about buffering, it ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writers are the president of Brazil, president of South Africa and prime minister of Spain As we write, ...

Women in the EU only earn €0.88 on average for every euro a man makes, meaning that they will symbolically start “working for free” from 17 November until the end of the year, according to the EU.