IS South Africa the world’s most unequal country? No. The numbers are lying to you. The Gini Coefficient, the flawed metric behind this damaging myth, ignores billions in black wealth, millions of ...

Economic inequality, the gap between the rich and poor, has always existed. This disparity has increased dramatically in the U.S. over the last four decades. Inequality can be measured in many ways, ...

Indonesia has one of the fastest rising rates of inequality in the East Asia region, with a Gini coefficient that has risen from 0.32 in 1999 to 0.41 in 2012. Rising inequality may begin to adversely ...

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Across the U.S. income inequality is rising more and more, both on the national level and at the city level. Income inequality is an increasing problem in the United States and has been for several ...

WHEN PEOPLE think about which rich countries have the least equal income distributions, America often jumps to mind. The country has a much smaller welfare state than many of its European counterparts ...

Income inequality in the U.S. is at its highest level in more than 50 years, according to new Census data. The gap between rich and poor is the widest in five states: California, Connecticut, Florida, ...

During the past two decades, Thailand has made progress towards reducing its significant levels of inequality. Yet inequality remains high. In 2021, with an income Gini coefficient of 43.3 percent, ...