Learn why the Palma Ratio offers a straightforward alternative to the Gini coefficient for measuring economic inequality.

President Obama will make economic inequality a central theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday, according to reports, highlighting the issue's emergence as a key political issue. Less ...

After declaring that India has almost eliminated extreme poverty, the government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) has picked up another set of estimates from the World Bank. This PIB release last week ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's statistics chief declared on Friday there was an urgent need for reforms to narrow the income gap between rich and poor, addressing head-on an issue that officialdom has ...