The richest people in the world not only hold most of the world’s wealth, they are also responsible for producing…
Global poverty features as one of the leading research topics for this year’s Nobel Prize in economics winner Angus Deaton.…
One of the sharpest criticisms of the newly enshrined Global Goals for sustainable development (SDGs) comes in the form of…
This is a part of a series of dispatches correspondent Tom Murphy is writing from New York during the U.N. General Assembly…
At a time when inequality is an increasing problem around the world, leaders have emerged with new solutions to address…
Despite massive gains in improving child well-being and reducing deaths over the past 20 years, there are millions still left…
Some heavy-hitting activists have joined the fight against the power held by the global 1 percent. ActionAid, Greenpeace, Oxfam and…
The six years since the global economic crisis have seen people and countries struggle. Things are getting better and the…
The publication of French economist Thomas Piketty’s nearly 700 page book on the state of global wealth marked a peak…
Politico Bill Gates rightly said that things are getting better around the world. It is the case for the majority,…