*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Updated on Saturday with a revised headline. TOKYO • Global income inequality has worsened over the past four decades, a ...

Oxfam report warns of danger ahead as gap widens between rich and poorIn 1990, just one in 10 people living in extreme poverty around the world lived in Africa. In 2024, it was seven in ten. Since ...

Residents of the township of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, queue for water. [AP Photo/Jerome Delay] The report examined three “pillars” to assess the level of inequality within the 164 ...

The 95-page report, “The Man Who Bought The World: Rights Abuses Linked to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Its Chairman, Mohammad bin Salman,” found that Saudi Arabia’s vast ...

The 2018 National Academies Annual Report to Congress detailing the work of our organization. ... nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the ...

5 May 2025 -The world has seen extraordinary social and economic progress over the past three decades. Yet, most people are dissatisfied with their lives: 60 per cent of the world’s population ...

Billionaire wealth surged in 2024, as the world’s richest people increasingly benefited from inheritance and powerful connections, Oxfam said Monday in its annual inequality report. The combined ...

According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the global inequalities in income among the richest 10% and bottom 50% population have increased over the last two decades, while global inequalities ...

U.N. report points to gap of inequality in sexual and reproductive ... UNFPA’s latest “State of World Population” report also estimates that nearly 500 maternal deaths a day occur in ...

Five people are expected to amass at least $1 trillion in wealth within the next decade, if current trends continue, according to Oxfam’s annual inequality report, released Sunday.

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 ...