Cash transfers offer governments a quick, visible response to rising inequality, but they risk masking deeper distortions. As fiscal pressures mount, essential services suffer. To address wide gaps ...

Let’s start with something that sounds obvious, but apparently isn’t: running a household takes work. Cooking, cleaning, ...

Income inequality between countries may have eased in recent decades, but the gap within nations continues to widen. Take France: Its poverty rate clocked 15.4 percent in 2023, th ...

Lasting equality doesn’t come from redistributing wealth — it comes from strengthening the social fabric that allows everyone ...

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When the word corruption is mentioned, the public imagination instinctively turns to politicians, public officials, and large ...

International organizations are also seeking to anchor the AI boom in shared standards. Shahbaz Khan, director of the UNESCO ...

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Martin Luther King Jr speaks to civil rights marchers in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 25, 1965. He was a believer in health ...

LET’S dismantle the tales.The Zimbabwean government’s constant invocation of the dream of becoming an “upper-middle-income ...

When countries and groups cannot readily access, generate and communicate high-quality analysis, they face a structural ...

The ultra-wealthy’s dominant power in our political system forces the question: Should America limit billionaire fortunes? A ...