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Under the post-war global order, the world avoided large-scale conflicts. It fostered the growth of democracies and was ...

There are 902 billionaires in the United States as of the newest survey, up from 813 in 2024. However, the Forbes data ...

$29.95 (cloth). From assessing inequality in the Byzantine Empire to musing over where people fall on the global distribution of income, Branko Milanovic has made a name for himself as an innovative ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform work but some around the world still struggle to access computers, a ...

Policies around waste management and processing are making global inequalities worse, argues an environmental professor.

Inequality is a notoriously challenging concept on which to make definitive statements Consider first the global distribution of COVID-19 mortality itself. Using the concept of life years lost to the ...

Progress in reducing global poverty has essentially halted: by 2030, nearly 7 percent of the world's population—nearly 600 million people—will still struggle in extreme poverty. Within-country ...

We also know that climate change has worsened global inequality. Across societies, the impacts of climate change affect women and men differently. Women and girls must walk further to collect water ...

Global income inequality is a pressing issue, widening the gap between rich and poor and leading to social, political, and economic instability. One of the key causes is the unequal distribution ...

A pioneering study has introduced an innovative framework to evaluate global inequalities in Particulate Matte (PM2.5) exposure and ecological possession, shedding light on the growing environmental ...