Donald J Trump knows meaning of the term ‘shithole country’; an unfortunate phrase he used in 2018 with primary reference to Haiti. This small article seeks to define said term with reference to the ...

According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the global inequalities in income among the richest 10% and bottom 50% population have increased over the last two decades, while global inequalities ...

We recently compiled a report on the 30 Countries with Highest Gini Coefficient and in this article we will look at the country with the highest wealth inequality. According to the World Inequality ...

Most of us would agree that poverty is a bad thing, at least in the abstract and general sense of the word. One definition of poverty is ‘the state of being extremely poor, of being inferior in ...

Fifty years ago, Corrado Gini, inventor of the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, died. How does it work, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. When Italian statistician - and former fascist - ...

Russia’s income inequality reached its highest level since 2007 in 2025, with the official Gini coefficient rising to 0.422 ...

China's first release of a rich-poor index for the past decade paints a far-from-rosy picture of what the country needs to do to bridge the wealth gap and make more people included in its magnificent ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Communist China has one of the world’s highest levels of income inequality, with the richest 1 per cent ...