The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

Xi has overseen rapid economic growth and rising wealth, while spending big on the military, but inequality has widened has and a demographic crisis looms

Scattered clashes around Chile between protesters and police on Tuesday marked the third anniversary of widespread protests against inequality in 2019 that left more than 30 people dead. 

Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of social protection programmes across the global south in what some have dubbed a development revolution. International development agencies across the ideological spectrum have embraced social protection as an effective and efficient instrument to reduce poverty and inequality.

THE UK risks experiencing levels of inequality last seen during the era of the Great Depression if the Tory government continues an austerity drive,…

Chinese President Xi Jinping is presiding over a new era that prioritises political control over economic development.

The “inequality and precarity” of London housing must be “urgently addressed”, research has found

Julia Gillard says the success of teal independents is a wake-up call for conservatives, and inequality has fuelled ongoing interest in her misogyny speech.

Governments across the world chose policies that deepened economic inequality after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

UK-based charity says rich and poor countries alike exacerbated rising economic inequality during the pandemic.

Analysis of budgets finds rich nations, including UK, ‘exacerbated explosion of economic inequality’

Incomes have stalled while the rich get richer. It’s clear the obsession with GDP has to change, says the University of Sheffield’s Michael Jacobs