A new systematic review of 172 studies including data from over 12 million adolescents across 166 countries reveals that while cross-national adolescent mental health research including low- and ...

Given the escalating scale of inequality in the world, shouldn't countries be banding together to set up an international panel on the issue, along the same lines as the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

The issues of ecological breakdown and economic inequality have become increasingly prominent in recent decades, forming the focus of multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals and social movements ...

The World Inequality Lab is calling for taxes targeting billionaires and fossil fuel dependency.

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

Inequalities in exposure to PM2.5 reflect disproportionate distribution of health risks across populations. This study assesses global PM2.5 exposure inequalities and associated trends since 2000.

A prominent narrative claims that global inequality is increasing as improvements in the standard of living accrue mainly to a small elite, leaving much of the world’s population behind and even worse ...

El Salvador’s decision to recognize bitcoin as legal tender is confusing for the majority of people who still see the cryptocurrency as a speculative bubble or a Ponzi scheme. The arguments against ...

COVID-19 WAS never going to be good for the poor. At first, however, the disease was not associated with rising inequality. Richer economies tended to suffer larger declines in GDP per person than ...

When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed. But what happens when the very system responsible for global plunder also decides how that plunder is explained? What happens when ...

It used to be that the battle to overcome inequality was about money. It was about helping the poor get better jobs so they could access a larger slice of the economic pie. What if that approach to ...

It’s one of the scariest questions facing billions of humans on a hotter planet: How many of us will die from extreme heat in the decades ahead? Your future risk of dying from heat will be determined ...