Nairobi — Kenya's most valuable resource -- land -- remains concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite, fueling inequality, food insecurity, and economic stagnation, a new Kenya Human Rights Commission ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Josie Cox is a New York-based journalist covering business and gender. Nov 03, 2025, 12:15am EST Bilingual sign on door of frozen ...

Imagine society as a ladder with 10 rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

From soaring household debt to entrenched labor dualism, inequality – not innovation – has become the defining feature of South Korea’s new economy. South Korea’s post-war economic rise has often been ...

There are competing narratives about artificial intelligence’s impact on inequality. Some argue AI will exacerbate economic disparities, while others suggest it could reduce inequality by primarily ...

Being viewed as a good corporate citizen can be good for the bottom line, find Erica Neuman and Curtis Farnsel, assistant professors of accounting at the University of Dayton. When corporations based ...

Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...

People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country: A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads ...

The COVID-19 pandemic appears likely to worsen inequalities in an enduring way, further widening the gap between haves and have-nots in advanced economies and reversing progress in developing ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

THINK ABOUT income inequality in America and some archetypes easily come to mind. Start with a rich corporate lawyer, earning above the roughly $1m annual income (before taxes and transfers) that ...