The top 1% saw its share of household income double from 1979 to 2022, going from 9% to 18%, the CBO said. The middle cohort ...

For years, economists have pointed to technology, globalization, and shifting labor markets as primary factors contributing ...

That ‘largely’ there is carrying a lot of weight. Too much – so much weight as to not, in fact, be true. Under the yoke of ...

For much of the 20th century, Sweden enjoyed a justifiable reputation as one of Europe's most egalitarian countries. Yet over ...

Wealth league tables promise clarity, ranking countries by how fairly they share prosperity. Yet when those scorecards label the Netherlands and the USA as outliers, they often obscure more than they ...

Botswana’s diamond-driven prosperity shows signs of erosion Sluggish growth and expanding deficits raise fiscal concerns Botswana’s economy is navigating one of its most formidable challenges in ...

Long-standing stereotypes are melting away. Over time many countries have turned from high-unemployment basket cases into job ...

China’s consumer-sensitive sectors are lagging further behind growth in industries linked to manufacturing and tech, ...

I N A CHAOTIC world, China did the predictable thing. Its economy met the official growth target for 2025, according to ...

This volume explores the production economic statistics that accurately depict the complex racial and ethnic diversity of the ...

Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 ...

The International Monetary Fund has raised Nigeria’s growth forecast for 2026 to 4.4 per cent, up from its earlier projection ...