The ADB–Cornell study finds that machine learning poverty maps often misfire, overestimating welfare in poor, rural, ...

Before jumping in, it is worth stating my ethical position clearly: Wealthy countries such as Ireland have a moral obligation ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 — Sixty per cent of Malaysian respondents in an Ipsos survey consider inequality an important problem, higher than the global average. Yet most still believe that hard work and ...

Bill Gates, billionaire and the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), shared his approach to solving problems, ...

Achieving gender parity could take more than a century. South Africa and Australia show why context matters – and why there’s ...

Income inequality dipped, more people had college degrees, fewer people moved to a different home and the share of Asian and ...

Prompt engineering in modern hotel management is recognised as a strategic competency that enables a shift from passive ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

President Trump's pick of a political ally, E.J. Antoni, to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics has raised fears among economists about political interference in important economic data. After a guest ...

Microsimulation methods are used to identify the contribution of tax and benefit reforms to the significant growth in UK income inequality since 1979. The total effect turns out to depend crucially on ...