The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

Global wealth is concentrated at the top. This is true for all countries to varying degrees. Yet, according to the World Inequality Database, in almost all nations, the richest 10 percent hold ...

Wealth began to concentrate—especially ... or medieval Europe have been used as models for how inequality developed. But the global view tells a more diverse story. Human agency—how people ...

Income inequality is so now lopsided that eight ... Oxfam based its calculations on data from Swiss bank Credit Suisse's 2016 Global Wealth report and Forbes' billionaires list of the world's ...

Today Zucman, a boyish-looking 38, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal for young economists that often precedes a Nobel, is ...

The report, prepared by French economist and inequality expert Gabriel Zucman, found that a 2% minimum tax on global billionaires’ wealth would yield between $200 billion and $250 billion from ...

Wealth inequality in India, a defining challenge of our era, profoundly undermines healthcare access, threatening the ...

It notes that billionaire wealth expanded three times faster in 2024 than in the previous year, while the number of people living in poverty has remained stagnant since 1990. The global ...