The New York Times had a major article reporting on how many people in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan are being forced to work well into their seventies because they lack sufficient income to ...

The 20th Communist Party of China National Congress proposed that "we will build an institutional framework under which ...

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Standing is a professorial research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network, an international NGO that ...

This paper was presented at the First Conference of the Americas, held by the Organization of American States in Washington on 6 March 1998. Great social inequality has long been a frustrating feature ...

Our eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats. This paper reviews income distribution in developing (and transition) countries in recent decades. On average, before-tax income ...

For the first time in more than four decades, “middle-income households” no longer constitute the majority of American society, according to a study published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.

Our firm has worked with retirees for over 30 years, and it is a common practice to help our clients turn their nest eggs into a reliable retirement income stream. Investors seem to have a variety of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a deep effect on living standards around the world. A recent Pew Research Center analysis found that the global middle class encompassed 54 million fewer people in 2020 ...