With President Obama hitting the road to do what he does best (making campaign-style speeches to friendly audiences), we are sure to hear a lot about income inequality over the next several months. As ...

In 2017, a widely publicized paper by a research team led by Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that while the vast majority of American kids born in 1940 ended up better off at age 30 than their ...

Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran considers absolute poverty a more direct and pressing concern for India. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com He argues that inequality is a relative ...

Simply sign up to the Property sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A think-tank says that a landmark study reveals growing absolute wealth inequality and raised questions about the ...

Economists have offered various explanations for the frustrating slowness of global growth, from excessive debt to a shifting balance of power bringing an end to an American century. A new analysis ...

Background: Reducing inequalities in health is a great challenge for public health, but how relative and absolute inequalities in mortality respond to changes in mortality by socioeconomic group is ...