New data from the World Health Organization reveals that many governments’ public funding of health care falls short of what is needed to meet their human rights obligations. The vast majority of ...

5 May 2025 -The world has seen extraordinary social and economic progress over the past three decades. Yet, most people are dissatisfied with their lives: 60 per cent of the world’s population are ...

24 April 2025 - Economic insecurity, staggering levels of inequality, declining social trust and social fragmentation are destabilizing societies worldwide. The World Social Report 2025, released ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

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 ...

Why do some nations fail and others succeed? In the late 1990s and early 2000s, three economists formed a partnership that would revolutionize how economists think about global inequality. Their work ...