A sweeping global report reveals that the world's tiniest elite now controls three times the wealth of humanity's poorest half, and calls to action fall on governments and the ultra-wealthy.

Even among 2024 Trump voters, a plurality (34 percent) felt that taxes on billionaires were too low, while just 12 percent ...

A tiny slice of the global elite owns three times more wealth than the bottom half of the world’s population combined, a new ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably ...

The World Inequality Report 2026, the third report in the series after earlier 2018 and 2022 editions, is based on the work ...

Globally, the top 0.001% own three times more than the poorest half of humanity combined, said the 2026 World Inequality ...

Just 1% of Indians hold about 40% of total wealth in the country, making income inequality in India among the highest in the ...

The world is more unequal than ever, and South Africa remains among the countries with the highest levels of wealth and ...

Graphs, Data, Perspectives’, we look at the World Inequality Report for 2026. Among other things, it shows that the top 10% ...

Early morning magenta light illuminates clouds and the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the foot of the Grand Tetons near Jackson, Wyoming. Teton County, home to the affluent and famous Jackson Hole, has ...

Over the years, the Belgian social security system has undergone substantial reform with a prime focus on increasing older worker labor force participation. The paper explores the effect of past ...

Two years ago this month, Thomas Piketty published his massive tome on inequality, Capital in the 21st Century. Embedded in the 696 pages of tables and analysis was a fairly simple idea: In rich ...