Discover what income inequality is, its primary causes, and how it's measured. Learn about its impact on society and explore ...

Though official understanding in India is that inequality is much less of a concern today than it was in the early 2010s, ...

The Gini Index explains global income inequality, ranking nations from perfect equality to extreme disparity. Discover how ...

The inequality studies minor at Duke, a collaboration between the Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity and the Department of History, aims to offer new ways for undergraduates to research and ...

In September 2015, 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed themselves to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are ...

In “Maid,” author Stephanie Land offers a firsthand account of life as a single mother struggling under the weight of crushing poverty and what she calls a “broken system of government assistance.” ...

Inequality in education is a defining challenge of our time. Around the world, students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are far more likely to underperform in school than are students ...

Many Americans imagine higher education as a place of social mobility -- an egalitarian pathway for reducing the gap between rich and poor. This viewpoint has been under public attack recently, with ...

This paper develops a general equilibrium lifecycle model to explore the welfare and inequality implications of different ways to return carbon tax revenue back to households. We find that the welfare ...

In the second half of the year 2021, there was a rejuvenation of the age-old debate of India vs Bharat, through comedian Vir Das’ Two India, at his performance in Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. This ...