Energy consumption is essential for human well-being, but there is enormous inequality in energy use worldwide. The top 10% of global energy consumers use roughly 30 times more energy than the bottom ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

Inequality today is not only persistent; it is structurally embedded and self-reinforcing. Drawing on the work of more than 200 scholars, the World Inequality Report 2026 examines the scale, drivers ...

We live in an unequal world in which descriptors of global inequality—especially inequalities in income—abound. “[T]he world’s richest 500 individuals have a combined income greater than that of the ...

Opponents of economic globalization often point to the ways it has widened inequality within nations in recent decades. In the United States, for instance, wages have remained fairly stagnant since ...

The rise of globalization and income inequality are two defining trends of our time. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the volume of global trade has increased dramatically, and in the past few ...

Today’s hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It’s a subject that deserves our attention, for it ...

Over the past quarter-century, the world has seen the deepest, most consequential decline in income inequality since the Industrial Revolution. And yet that progress is coming to an end, probably ...

Income inequality has been talked about and written about for decades but, while universally decried as “a bad thing” and steadily getting worse, its causes and consequences were widely misunderstood ...

A new systematic review of 172 studies including data from over 12 million adolescents across 166 countries reveals that while cross-national adolescent mental health research including low- and ...

Between 2008 and 2013, global inequality fell for the first time since the industrial revolution. The historic fall in global inequality was driven by robust growth in average incomes in populous ...

COVID-19 WAS never going to be good for the poor. At first, however, the disease was not associated with rising inequality. Richer economies tended to suffer larger declines in GDP per person than ...