Why is calculating the actual level of income and wealth inequality in India extremely difficult? What are the methods? Does ...

An urge to show progress must neither use faulty comparisons nor gloss over realities. But a recent press release citing ...

The government’s assertions conceal a broader reality of increasing income inequality and widespread economic hardship. These ...

A deeply misleading narrative has recently been doing the rounds — that India is the ‘fourth most equal country in the world’ ...

Is the Gini coefficient still a relevant measure of inequality in South Africa? This article explores its limitations and advocates for the continued use of robust statistical measures in policy ...

Over a century after Pareto’s observation, the Global South remains trapped in a cycle of concentrated wealth and entrenched ...

In this video I talk about and show a few interesting maps of the Russian Federation. Russia has been on the news a lot ...

According to the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2022-23, inequality in consumption did decline ...

Arkansas ranked eighth out of 50 states for income inequality, with the top 5% of the population holding a 23.37% share of ...

The Gini coefficient is a statistical measure (between 0 and 1) that quantifies how much a dataset deviates from perfect equality. Zero represents absolute equality; one represents absolute ...

India's SDG progress report highlights advancements in poverty reduction and social protection. Social protection now covers ...

Economist Vamsi Vakulabharanam notes that despite differing political systems, both nations have had similar inequality ...