Learn how to use the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), the interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared ...

We continue to provide new analysis on inequalities and poverty trends, particularly in relation to the expansion of digital technologies and their impact on the lives of the poorest and most ...

“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 income-achievement gap is a significant and stubborn problem in the United States, which has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this article, we link two emerging literatures that have ...

What determines mental health, school performance, and even cognitive development? A new study in Reviews in the Neurosciences suggests that poverty and low socioeconomic status (SES) are key ...

Poverty eradication is the first goal on the United Nations’ list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the relationships between poverty eradication and the other SDGs remain unclear, ...

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 ...

Timely, accurate and robust data are critical to analyzing poverty and inequality within and across countries, and thereby ensuring development actions are targeted and effective in supporting the ...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country’s per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65. This ...

The new "Global Justice Report" by the World Inequality Lab in France — which calls for caps on economic growth in rich ...

A study of 66,000 genomes proves social inequality drives accelerated biological aging starting in early childhood.