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    • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
      Climate change
      Global elite produce almost half greenhouse emissions, UN says

      ‘Carbon inequalities’ within countries support case for wealth tax on biggest polluters

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Martin Wolf
      The optimists were right and can be so again

      We cannot wait for another period of catastrophe before we attempt renewal

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Big cities drive half of global economic growth

      Data highlight the importance of urban areas, not nations, in driving development

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Global Economy
      World Bank warns of mounting debt burden for poorer countries

      Higher interest rates and slump in currencies raise debt servicing costs by more than a third

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Chris Giles
      The globalisation elephant has left the room

      The latest data indicates a clear link between trade integration and falling global inequality

    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      What’s driving the rich world’s falling fertility?

      This will be a global problem as the whole planet becomes wealthier, healthier and better educated

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Larry Kramer
      The market is not an end in itself

      If capitalism is to survive the political and social disruption, it will need to adapt as it has done in the past

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

      When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Special ReportInvesting in Education
      In charts: education around the world

      What the data tell us about basic schooling, funding and policymakers’ priorities

    • Monday, 22 August, 2022
      Sam Freedman
      The truth is that schools do little to reduce inequality

      Education cannot compensate for the failure to implement redistributive social policies

    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Ian Goldin
      Demography is not destiny

      But public policy must be informed by a recognition of the effects of falling birth rates

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      Cash transfers work. So why don’t states do more of them?

      Welfare policies are constructed with a small number of ‘power users’ in mind, rather than the great majority

    • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      Davos and the new deglobalisation

      Technological progress suggests the turn from globalisation can bring benefits as well as challenges

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      Gillian Tett
      Beware the rich persons’ savings glut

      Since the 1990s, the private share of national wealth has soared while public wealth has shrunk

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      FT SeriesBaby bust: How the pandemic affected population growth 
      Baby bust: global demographic trends create tough choices

      Population trends are too complicated to be categorised as economic destiny but neither can they be ignored

    • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Brief History of Equality — the newly optimistic Thomas Piketty

      The French economist’s latest book condenses the arguments of his previous tomes but is short on the practical politics of real change

    • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
      Economists Exchange
      Branko Milanovic: ‘The forces of self-interest and technology cannot be undone’

      Inequality may have stopped rising in big countries, but what happens to global inequality now depends on Africa

    • Thursday, 20 January, 2022
      Chris Giles
      How to keep your inheritance tax bill down

      Embrace diversity, stop being a Nimby and contribute to a new social and economic bargain

    • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
      Healthcare
      Pandemic exposes a world of healthcare inequalities

      The poor are continuing to bear the brunt of Covid-19

    • Friday, 7 January, 2022
      UK Inequality
      Wealth inequality rises in Britain after decade of stability

      Top 1% of households have 230 times more wealth than those in the bottom 10%

    • Tuesday, 28 December, 2021
      James Kynge
      Year in a word: Common prosperity

      Closing the gulf between the rich and poor is about proving China can succeed where other countries have failed

    • Monday, 20 December, 2021
      Free LunchGlobal Economy20 min
      The case for a universal basic income

      The pandemic has opened the door to radical economic reform, argues the FT's Martin Sandbu

    • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
      Free LunchMartin Sandbu
      The global state of inequality Premium content

      Are we all in this together?

    • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
      Ayoade Alakija
      Africa is being punished by richer nations in the Covid battle

      Inequality in vaccine distribution, stringent travel bans and closed decision-making are taking their toll on African countries

    • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
      Thomas Liebig
      Diversity policies must avoid benefiting the already privileged

      White women are the biggest beneficiaries, while those from lower socioeconomic groups are often overlooked

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