Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce ...

The overall level of income inequality in a country is an important dimension of welfare, with significant implications for a country's ability to reduce poverty. Although inequality is used in a wide ...

To address the global wage crisis and income inequality, the International ... data and consultations with employers’ and workers’ organisations. “It aims to define what constitutes a ...

"We are living through the greatest disruption to global health financing in memory," Director General Tedros Adhanom ...

This metric measures disparities in income by comparing the per capita income for non-Hispanic whites against the per capita income for other racial or ethnic groups. The analysis, based on data ...

In this study, we document the decline in income inequality and a convergence in consumption patterns in Brazilian states in a new database constructed from micro data from the national households’ ...

Market income inequality in Japan has been on a steady rise since the 1980s, and is now close to the OECD average. Gross and disposable income inequality, on the other hand, have risen much less but ...

Japan’s income inequality hit its second-worst level on record, according to a labor ministry survey conducted in 2021. The Gini coefficient--an index that measures income inequality on a ...

Income inequality remains high in LAC, where the poorest receive a very small share of total income. This dashboard measures the proportion of income received by each quintile and each quintile’s ...