A Crisis Fluke: Brazil's Shrinking Wealth Gap. Published Aug 13, 2009 at 5:00 AM EDT Updated May 18, 2010 at 4:27 PM EDT. By ...

Brazil commissioned a report calling for the world's billionaires to pay 2% of their wealth in income tax, a plan that would raise up to $250 billion annually from about 3,000 people.

""Brazil is Synonymous with Inequality": Aerial Images Reveal Wealth Gap in Brazilian Cities" ["O Brasil é sinônimo de desigualdade": imagens aéreas mostram o abismo socioeconômico em cidades ...

But a wealth gap that's too wide is usually unhealthy. It can slow economic growth, in part because richer Americans save more of their income than do others.

Brazilian presidential hopeful Aecio Neves said on Monday he would consider taxing large fortunes as part of a broader push to overhaul the country's tax code, a surprise admission from a ...

Learn how women can narrow the financial gender gap by managing their investments wisely. Learn how women face a different financial life journey to men and how to ensure the outcome towards the end ...

A new study analyzing more than three decades of wage data argues that government policies (such as the failure to have the minimum wage track inflation) go further toward explaining the expanding ...