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We provide new evidence that inflation inequality surged during the 2021–2023 cost-of living crisis, driven by systematically higher price growth for lower-quality goods disproportionately consumed by ...

‘Let’s stop admiring the problem and start admiring the solutions’, said Bola Owolabi, Director of Health Inequalities at NHS England, at The King’s Fund’s health inequalities conference in early May, ...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country’s per capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65.

Five millennia ago, wealth inequality—which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years—exploded. It has stayed constant, albeit much higher, ever since. "It's really amazing," says SFI ...

Nobel laureates, such as MIT’s Daron Acemoglu, are worried about its capacity to worsen income inequalities, and ordinary American workers are anxious about AI’s impact on jobs. In fact ...

Ramaphosa said the next phase would prioritise addressing the apartheid legacy of spatial inequality, improving local government performance, and digital transformation. Minister in the Presidency ...

He has appeared on many establishment outlets like Channel 4 and BBC Question Time to argue that wealth inequality is the real driver behind falling living standards and increasing stagnation. To fix ...

This is to say, one’s understanding of South Africa’s inequality is the starting point for all competing answers. The more challenging issue of the policy changes required to meet the numerous ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The NHS Race and Health Observatory has announced a landmark agreement with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to address persistent and systemic ethnic health inequalities.

Clare Pan is a research associate in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Income inequality estimates based on traditional poverty measures do not capture the effects of health care ...