The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

The capital’s Tube network is considered the most expensive of any major global city, with fares set to rise above inflation until 2030

Across Africa, women have less access to the internet than men. In Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania only 15%-28% of women own smartphones. Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo is a feminist political economist and director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. She…

Median pay for Britain’s top bosses rose 6.8% to a record high, with 13 executives earning €11.6M or more, as critics warn of deepening inequality.

Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?– Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. I was offered my first job in Mumbai on a very rainy day in September 2005, a few weeks after we had celebrated the…

Coming out of the pandemic, Bank of America Institute’s David Tinsley tells Fortune, “there was a narrowing of wealth inequality, and now it’s widening.”

The Australian government has “an appetite to be bold and ambitious” in its economic reform agenda. And tax reform is on the menu at its much-publicised reform roundtable, to be held next week.

With the UK government facing a multibillion pound gap between revenue and spending, calls for a wealth tax are becoming louder.

Imagine society as a ladder with ten rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status – where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily reflective of where you actually are. Subjective social status matters as it shapes what you believe, how you…

When thousands of residents took to the streets of Mexico City in July chanting “Gringo, go home”, news headlines were quick to blame digital nomads and expats. The story seemed simple: tech-savvy remote workers move in, rents go up and locals get priced out.