Stephen Bagwell is a researcher with the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, a charitable trust registered in New Zealand Skip Mark does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

Despite the strength of the U.S. economy, the gap between rich and poor Americans is increasing. The wealthiest 1% of Americans have more than five times as much wealth as the bottom 50%, according to ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...