Urban and rural income surveys will be standardized amid plans to publish an internationally accepted measure of how wealth is distributed, a leading statistician said. "The nationwide survey, which ...

Last month the government quietly published the latest measure of income inequality, the Gini coefficient, for the UK. The figure tells a story of growing exploitation and mounting poverty in Britain.

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 ...

New data from a Chinese think tank suggests that the government has succeeded in tamping down on inequality, flying in the face of academic evidence and sparking fresh controversy over the divide ...

Caixin magazine recently reported the National Bureau of Statistics’ failure for an eleventh consecutive year to release the country’s Gini coefficient, a key measure of economic inequality. Now, ...

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 ...