The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz warns that unchecked inequality is pushing America toward economic and political peril.

This past weekend, Planet Money traveled to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting of the American Economic Association (as well as other economic associations). It's the biggest professional ...

Has income inequality got worse in the last 20 years? According to the most recent data, South Africa has the highest income inequality in the world, with a Gini coefficient of around 0.67. The Gini ...

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand The relationship between inequality and economic ...

In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality. By Manuela Andreoni Climate change wasn’t a big topic in the ...

Inequality is the big economic topic of the moment—everyone from the Pope to New York mayor Bill DeBlasio to global leaders at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos are talking about it. Tonight, ...

The relationship between inequality and economic growth is a complex one, especially in Africa. Inequality is the result of a host of factors, including policy choices, institutional legacies and ...