Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in ...

The AI boom could drive unemployment and “potentially exacerbate inequality,” said CIMB Group’s Pedro Uria-Recio.

A major source of unease around AI is how its advance can make societies’ existing inequities even worse—a systemic ...

High-end accommodations for pooches are thriving in one of the world's most unequal countries. They have their defenders and ...

In the name of fighting income inequality, pundits in the UK and US are calling for wealth taxes as magic bullets that will ...

Investing more in agriculture, especially with external financing, offers the biggest gains in raising incomes and reducing ...

Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce ...

The world will never be completely equal. And maybe it shouldn’t be — let me explain. Egalitarianism, the idea of equality ...

A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

Five millennia ago, wealth inequality — which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years — exploded. It has stayed ...

The pace of adoption is accelerating rapidly. According to Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index, 82% of global leaders expect to ...