Is South Africa truly the most unequal country in the world? This article challenges the widely accepted Gini Coefficient, revealing how it overlooks significant black wealth and social progress, and ...

Studies have quantified this phenomenon. One cross-country analysis showed that a 10 percentage point increase in the credit-to-GDP ratio in the lead-up to a recession was associated with an increase ...

No matter what economic or market system a country has, inequality is a reality. No matter how hard a nation tries, ...

The study found that happiness exerts a measurable and positive effect on income. Specifically, a 1% increase in happiness ...

A global ocean color shift is underway, with greener waters near the poles and bluer seas in the tropics, impacting many ...

South Africa inherited an economy that was structurally designed to exclude the vast majority of South Africans. Apartheid’s ...

Two economists have developed a new way of looking at equity between later and earlier generations in the long-term ...

What is likely to result from his moves, based on historical experience and economic logic ... where the US Census Bureau measured the Gini coefficient to be 0.49 in 2021—even higher than the ...

Hong Kong’s wealth gap has widened to a historic high, with the richest household now earning about 44 times what the poorest family scrapes together, despite government efforts to alleviate ...