In 2013, Cobham and Sumner proposed an alternative to the Gini co-efficient: the Palma ratio. They named it after José Gabriel Palma, a Chilean economist. Palma noticed that in most countries, the ...

As suffering and poverty have risen, some data show an increase in another extreme: the wealth of billionaires. With both extreme poverty and billionaire wealth on the rise, the pandemic’s effect on ...

The Labor Department’s latest data shows that Americans’ “real ... and there’s been a decline in income inequality in recent years, according to economist Elise Gould.

India's income distribution has been studied through Indian Household Income Surveys by organisations like NCAER and PRICE ...

Income inequality in India has decreased post-pandemic, but remains higher than 2015-16, as shown by a recent study.

"It's a cool, novel dataset," Tideman-Frappart said. Analysis of the data showed that management science remains a male-dominated discipline at all levels. Only 32 of 135 editors, or close to 24% ...