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  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Stephen Bush
    Cash transfers work. So why don’t states do more of them?

    Welfare policies are constructed with a small number of ‘power users’ in mind, rather than the great majority

  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
    Rana Foroohar
    Davos and the new deglobalisation

    Technological progress suggests the turn from globalisation can bring benefits as well as challenges

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Gillian Tett
    Beware the rich persons’ savings glut

    Since the 1990s, the private share of national wealth has soared while public wealth has shrunk

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    FT SeriesBaby bust: How the pandemic affected population growth 
    Baby bust: global demographic trends create tough choices

    Population trends are too complicated to be categorised as economic destiny but neither can they be ignored

  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A Brief History of Equality — the newly optimistic Thomas Piketty

    The French economist’s latest book condenses the arguments of his previous tomes but is short on the practical politics of real change

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Martin Sandbu
    Branko Milanovic: ‘The forces of self-interest and technology cannot be undone’

    Inequality may have stopped rising in big countries, but what happens to global inequality now depends on Africa

  • Thursday, 20 January, 2022
    Chris Giles
    How to keep your inheritance tax bill down

    Embrace diversity, stop being a Nimby and contribute to a new social and economic bargain

  • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
    Special ReportThe World 2022
    Pandemic exposes a world of healthcare inequalities

    The poor are continuing to bear the brunt of Covid-19

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    UK Inequality
    Wealth inequality rises in Britain after decade of stability

    Top 1% of households have 230 times more wealth than those in the bottom 10%

  • Tuesday, 28 December, 2021
    James Kynge
    Year in a word: Common prosperity

    Closing the gulf between the rich and poor is about proving China can succeed where other countries have failed

  • Monday, 20 December, 2021
    Free LunchGlobal Economy20 min
    The case for a universal basic income

    The pandemic has opened the door to radical economic reform, argues the FT's Martin Sandbu

  • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    The global state of inequality Premium content

    Are we all in this together?

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    Ayoade Alakija
    Africa is being punished by richer nations in the Covid battle

    Inequality in vaccine distribution, stringent travel bans and closed decision-making are taking their toll on African countries

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    Thomas Liebig
    Diversity policies must avoid benefiting the already privileged

    White women are the biggest beneficiaries, while those from lower socioeconomic groups are often overlooked

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    FT Wealth
    Latin America’s widening inequalities spur the wealthy into action

    ‘You need to invest that wealth in improving opportunities for others’

  • Sunday, 19 September, 2021
    Rana Foroohar
    Forget the ‘she-cession’ — women will redefine the labour market

    Technological and societal shifts mean that the future of work will change for everyone

  • Monday, 6 September, 2021
    Ian Goldin
    Covid-19 has made fighting inequality more critical than ever

    The pandemic has widened the gulf between rich and poor, but by co-operating we can rebuild a more sustainable world

  • Monday, 6 September, 2021
    Henrietta Moore
    To truly ‘build back better’ we must reimagine what prosperity looks like

    Focusing on GDP and physical infrastructure is futile without real-life benefits for people living in left-behind towns

  • Sunday, 22 August, 2021
    Tarun Ramadorai
    Technology can help democratise financial services

    If properly regulated, digital tools offer an opportunity to reduce global inequality

  • Monday, 9 August, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
    Pandemic plunges families into food poverty in world’s rich economies

    First increase in food insecurity in Europe and North America since UN data began in 2014

  • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
    FT CollectionsRana Foroohar
    Heather Boushey: ‘The guardrails have come off the US economy’

    The senior economic adviser to Joe Biden discusses how the system needs fundamental reform to work for the middle class

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    Halima Begum
    Racial discrimination will plague the UK until government intervenes

    To achieve true social mobility, the state must act as a leveller

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    Special ReportDelivering for the World’s Children
    Why we must tackle the scourge of child labour

    To achieve a fairer system, nations must focus on the core issues of worker rights

  • Monday, 12 July, 2021
    Pandemic and higher food prices fuel sharp rise in global hunger

    Increase of 320m who lost access to adequate nutrition last year is equal to previous five years combined, says UN

  • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
    Martin Wolf
    Monetary policy is not the solution to inequality

    But the necessary structural reforms will be harder than many economists imagine

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