India has made remarkable progress in reducing extreme poverty. World Bank data shows nearly 270 million people moved out of ...

When Jagtar Singh Kang immigrated with his family to the U.S. from the Indian region of Punjab in 1997, he was paid $8.50 an hour at his first job: working on an assembly line making catheters. It was ...

Our attempts to establish scientific proof can harden into dogma. The target of “statistical significance” leads some to ...

A number of other recent consumption and asset surveys are also showing a fall in inequality ... About 450 million crossed the $2 income line between 2000 and 2012. Focus on health insurance ...

Although males live shorter lives than females across all deciles, they lived a greater number of ... Slope Index of Inequality (SII) is calculated by taking the difference between the extremes of a ...

The Trumpsters, agrees Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, are moving us “into an oligarchic form of society where extraordinary power rests in the hands of a small number of unelected ... the ...

For years, the number used to measure inequality has been the Gini coefficient ... divide the result by the area beneath the straight line denoting perfect equality, and you have your Gini ...

Meanwhile, the number of people experiencing poverty remains ... One such way is through privatization, which drives and reinforces inequalities, particularly along racial, class, caste, and gender ...

It ranges between ‘Zero’ (Complete Equality) and ‘One’ (Complete Inequality), the declining number showing inequality is declining. “The Gini index improved from 0.463 post-independence ...

Hong Kong’s labour minister has said using a poverty line to measure inequality was “inadequate ... The city released annual figures for the number of people living below the poverty ...

In short: Unlike other countries, Australia doesn't set and measure a poverty line. It leaves services ... "Poverty and inequality are complex issues and it's critical that we address the ...