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    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      French riots show how entrenched inequalities have become

      The gulf between immigrants and those born in the country is larger than in almost any other developed nation

      Rear view of a French policeman in riot gear with graph lines showing disparity between immigrant and native-born employment
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      French politics
      France endures fourth night of violence and looting after police shooting

      Interior minister says intensity of protests is fading but Macron cancels visit to Germany

    • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
      Ruchir Sharma
      Billionaires find big wins in big government

      Analysis of the mega-rich shows barely a dent in their fortunes or numbers

      A protester holds up a burning firework outside the LVMH headquarters
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      Liberalism’s problems are problems of success

      But solutions proposed by ‘national conservatives’ have difficulties of their own

      Illustration of a wooden scale of justice with, on its right, an old man with a tweed flatcap pointing to the clouds. The other side has US dollars bills propped up by a takeaway plastic cup
    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      The problem with the argument for reparations

      It almost invariably becomes about who should pay, rather than about who needs the money

      Illustration of a treadmill on an athletics track. Two athletes are ready to start racing - a male black athlete on the treadmill and a white female athlete on the track
    • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
      Visual and data journalism
      Killings of journalists at four-year high as Ukraine war takes toll

      Other charts of the week: women artists’ high prices, US traffic deaths, teens’ social media use and a rise in extreme poverty

    • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
      Climate change
      Global elite produce almost half greenhouse emissions, UN says

      ‘Carbon inequalities’ within countries support case for wealth tax on biggest polluters

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Martin Wolf
      The optimists were right and can be so again

      We cannot wait for another period of catastrophe before we attempt renewal

      James Ferguson illustration of a line of paper figures holding hands, with their heads depicted as arrows pointing forwards
    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Big cities drive half of global economic growth

      Data highlight the importance of urban areas, not nations, in driving development

      People walking through a market in Bangalore, India
    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Global Economy
      World Bank warns of mounting debt burden for poorer countries

      Higher interest rates and slump in currencies raise debt servicing costs by more than a third

      A girl uses a kerosene oil lamp to study at home in Colombo, Sri Lanka
    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Chris Giles
      The globalisation elephant has left the room

      The latest data indicates a clear link between trade integration and falling global inequality

      Customers shop at Haikou International Duty Free City Complex
    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      What’s driving the rich world’s falling fertility?

      This will be a global problem as the whole planet becomes wealthier, healthier and better educated

      Ewan White illustration of a woman standing in a huge baby cot with dollar bills hanging from a toy mobile above her
    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Larry Kramer
      The market is not an end in itself

      If capitalism is to survive the political and social disruption, it will need to adapt as it has done in the past

      The American economist Milton Friedman in 1974. Some neoliberals seem to wrongly believe that he achieved a perfect and timeless wisdom
    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

      When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut

      Volunteers distribute food in Glasgow city centre. On present trends, the average Slovenian household will be better off than its British counterpart by 2024
    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Special ReportInvesting in Education
      In charts: education around the world

      What the data tell us about basic schooling, funding and policymakers’ priorities

      Single working mother helping her daughter to get ready for school
    • Monday, 22 August, 2022
      Sam Freedman
      The truth is that schools do little to reduce inequality

      Education cannot compensate for the failure to implement redistributive social policies

      Illustration of a woman with long straight blonde hair, wearing a navy suit and high heels and holding a red bag in her left hand running up giant dark green stairs drawn on a yellow background. Man and a woman standing at the bottom of the staircase looking up at her
    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Ian Goldin
      Demography is not destiny

      But public policy must be informed by a recognition of the effects of falling birth rates

      A man pushes two children in a double buggy in Beijing
    • 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

      Ewan White illustration of a maze in the shape of a dollar sign with one person trying to escape and a woman standing on top holding a huge dollar note
    • 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

      Matt Kenyon illustration of a map of the world encased in an old-style light bulb next to another image of the world map inside a modern light bulb
    • 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

      Illustration of four fighter jets with their yellow contrails crossing on a blue background
    • 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

      A woman wearing a face mask , a woman holding a baby and a woman looking at a cellphone
    • 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

      A picture of a train on a raised line passing above a shantytown
    • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
      Economists Exchange
      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

      Leonie Woods illustration of Martin Sandbu and Branko Milanovic for the Economist Exchange featuring conversations between top FT commentators and leading economists
    • 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

      Terraced houses in Camden, London
    • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
      Healthcare
      Pandemic exposes a world of healthcare inequalities

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

      A health worker administers a Covid vaccine in Zimbabwe. Developing countries have lower vaccination rates than western nations
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