Income inequality has been on the rise—or stagnant at best—in most countries since the early 1980s (OECD, 2008). Often, this flies in the face of the two theories most commonly used to predict ...

fiscal policy reduced inequality by about one-third in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Fiscal policy has also tended to have a larger redistributive impact in ...

for some of our countries inequality increased. Inequality indicators are different ways of measuring aggregate differences in income distribution. The Gini index, as well as the 90/10 ratio, are some ...

Chile has some of the worst social indicators of the 34 countries that make up the ... have also been the third highest in the OECD. Income inequality in Chile is the highest in the OECD (with ...

Along with Sweden and Norway, it forms Scandinavia, a cultural region in Northern Europe. #1 in Income equality The Kingdom of Denmark emerged in the 10th century and includes two North Atlantic ...

The share of rent in consumption expenditure has risen to 6.58%, according to the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-2024. This is the highest it has been in surveys going back to the turn ...

Finland has been the happiest country on earth for the past six years, according to the World Happiness Survey. This survey ...

"And deregulation has been on the agenda for many countries in different regions of the world. One of the effects of that has been growing income inequality or persistent income inequality." ...

People living in Australia have better health outcomes and face less inequality compared to other high-income countries in the ... to other English-speaking OECD nations. Health economist Martin ...

They learn about how to conceptualise living standards, inequality, poverty ... on univariate monetary measures of economic wellbeing notably ‘income’, and on the experience of OECD countries ...