American cities are becoming increasingly divided, with wealth concentrated in certain areas while poverty is entrenched in others, and the housing crisis is not just a supply problem but a moral one ...

Bangladesh has seen impressive economic growth in recent years, emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia.

Research Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting ...

The main indicator used to measure shared prosperity is the growth in the real per capita income of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution. This dashboard shows the differences in ...

Respect for human rights is closely intertwined with addressing poverty and extreme inequality. Human Rights Watch research exposes how people experiencing poverty are often more vulnerable to ...

Such a disparity between the haves and have nots has costs that undermine democracy, such as a lessening of social bonds.

If so, by how much? How economic inequality affects poverty? Does the responsiveness of poverty to growth and inequality depend on initial poverty and inequality? How do pro-poor policies influence ...

Turbulent research landscape imperils US brain gain − and ultimately American prosperity By The Associated Press PUBLISHED: July 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM EDT ...

Taxpayer subsidies for renewable energy, like wind and solar power, only drive up prices and make the electric grid less reliable. The One Big Beautiful Bill aims to phase them out.

New Yorkers are sending a clear message: The city isn’t delivering enough. The Citizens Budget Commission’s recent survey, Straight From New Yorkers, paints a stark picture with residents ...

This is more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over at the World Bank’s highest poverty line of $8.30 a day. The wealth of just 3,000 billionaires has surged $6.5 trillion in real terms ...

Alex Braithwaite, Niheer Dasandi, David Hudson, Does poverty cause conflict? Isolating the causal origins of the conflict trap, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 33, No. 1 (February 2016), ...