Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Is inequality back as a political issue? Senator Bernie Sanders seems to think so. He is leading a “Fighting Oligarchy ...

Reading any Closing the Gap report is a sombre affair, and the most recent data was no different. The latest report released by the Productivity Commission makes for a sobering but unsurprising ...

In 2023/24, we continued to see how some people face inequalities in care and treatment because of their protected characteristics. We found attempts by services to address these inequalities varied.

School of Environment, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of ...

Most inequality analysis focuses on income (the wages earned from a job or from capital gains) rather than wealth (the sum of one’s assets minus debts). Income inequality, while stark, pales in ...

Respect for human rights is closely intertwined with addressing poverty and extreme inequality. Human Rights Watch research exposes how people experiencing poverty are often more vulnerable to ...

At Oxfam, we know that climate change, poverty, and inequality are linked. The impact of shifting weather patterns, droughts, flooding, and storms hits marginalized communities with few resources ...

A part of this work was done during the stay of the first author in Tokyo, supported by Tokyo Institute of Technology and the French Mathematical Society.

Economic, social and political inequality are enduring and grave threats to societies. Income inequality is rising everywhere, while the number of refugees increased by 44 per cent between 2015 and ...

We’ve all seen the stats on America’s extreme inequality. Over 20 percent of our nation’s income flows to the top 1 percent. The top 1 percent’s share of our country’s wealth is approaching 40 percent ...