Syria is one of the poorest Arab countries and has a Gini coefficient score of 77.8. With an income share gap of 43.80%, ...

There is too much local focus but not enough understanding of how what happens in the world affects our lives," said Carroll. The 416-page, seven pounds(3,2-kg) book includes maps and graphics ...

Five years later, the data show that the setback to living standards could endure.

Is there any way to talk about rich countries and poor countries that is both useful ... for generating and harnessing prosperity. In the map below, based on the CIA's 2008 classification scheme ...

In this map of world GDP per person ... agriculture demands the right environmental conditions; sunshine, rich soil, water and topography. None can be imported. Another physical requirement ...

A single person in the rich world uses more fossil fuel energy than all the energy available to 23 poor Africans. The rich world became wealthy by massively exploiting fossil fuels, which today ...

IN THE RICH world ... More than a quarter of the world’s children under five are not registered at birth. Half of the 29 poorest countries have not completed a census in the past ten years ...

LONDON—Rampant food inflation is roiling the world’s least-developed nations. It is also hitting poor people in rich countries. Matsentralen Norge, a food-bank operator in oil-rich Norway ...

The disparity between rich and poor countries at present is noted in the very first paragraph of the proposed treaty to be discussed in Geneva. The draft cites “the catastrophic failure of the ...

Three men are being awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for their work exploring why some societies prosper and others don’t. Their answer, in a nutshell, lies in government institutions ...