Spend a few minutes browsing political commentary or scrolling social media and you will discover a seemingly settled truth: inequality in the West is soaring, the middle class is being hollowed out, ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation St. Lucia has enviably high female labor force participation rate and strikingly low participation gap vis-à-vis male. The ...

International Equal Pay Day, on September 18, highlights gender inequalities across employment sectors. But sport has a series of circumstances that make it a particularly tough nut to crack. "Sport ...

The severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is clearly seen in the numbers: more than 3.1 million deaths and rising, 120 million people pushed into extreme poverty, and a massive global recession. As ...

COVID-19 spread around the world and made existing inequalities worse. Paraisopolis, a poor neighborhood in São Paulo amid gentrification. Inequality kills. That’s the title of a recent report ...

My dear friends, President Cyril Ramaphosa, excellencies, distinguished guests, friends, It is a privilege to join you in honouring Nelson Mandela, an extraordinary global leader, advocate, and role ...