Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Teresa Ghilarducci Ph.D. is an Economics Professor. With the regularity of Halley’s comet, but more frequent occurrences, the ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in ...

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

The richest people on the planet are far more likely to be in power politically than everyone else, Oxfam’s annual inequality report found.

19 June 2023 - In 2015, the SDGs were agreed as an integrated and indivisible set of Goals that cannot be achieved one at a time or in siloes. The recently released ‘Report of the Secretary-General on ...

LET’S dismantle the tales.The Zimbabwean government’s constant invocation of the dream of becoming an “upper-middle-income economy” by 2030 has been presented as a promise of prosperity, dignity, and ...

Stigma is a glue that holds poverty, inequality and economic insecurity in place enabling and exacerbating inequalities of wealth, health and opportunity, says a new report. Poverty Stigma is a ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

This article examines the dynamics of inequality, poverty and sustainable development of Delta State, Nigeria. A non-probability and probability sampling technique was adopted. Inequality was measured ...

People living in societies with more corruption, inequality, poverty and violence are more likely to exhibit "dark" personality traits—like narcissism, psychopathy and spitefulness. This is the ...