Widening disparities in income and wealth both within and across countries have become among the most pressing global challenges of our time. As inequalities deepen, the call for coordinated ...

I often start the first-year managerial economics classes I teach by showing a graph to my MBA students (see below). It shows that in 1951, middle-income Indians (from the middle 40 th percentile, ...

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing awareness of gender inequality in the tech industry. Many high-profile companies have released figures on the number of men versus women that they ...

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