A new study from the World Inequality Lab finds that the present-day golden era of Indian billionaires has produced soaring income inequality in India—now among the highest in the world and starker ...

By contrast, the poorest 50% increased their wealth by only 1%, according to data from the World Inequality Lab. “It isn’t just unfair and undermining societal cohesion – it’s a problem for our ...

When Hardik Joshi sat down to crunch the latest numbers from the World Inequality Database, he expected to find a growing gap. What he didn’t expect was a figure so stark that it would compel him to ...

While hundreds of millions of workers and rural poor in India struggle to make ends meet and some two hundred million people suffer from malnourishment, the income share of India’s wealthiest 1 ...

The reality captured by the World Inequality Report 2022 reflects human choices, which means that it can be changed by making other choices. That is why the report is not just a valuable compendium of ...

Experts have called for the creation of a global inequality panel - Copyright AFP Adek BERRY Experts have called for the creation of a global inequality panel ...

Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 11:00 CET | 14:00 - 17:00 HK/SG Lucas Chancel, codirector and senior economist at the World Inequality Lab of the Paris School of Economics, discusses climate inequality, the ...

A fisherman colony alongside commercial buildings in the Indian city of Mumbai, now Asia’s billionaire capital. Credit - Dhiraj Singh—Bloomberg/Getty Images A new study from the World Inequality Lab ...