Zambia ranks fifth among the countries with the widest gap between rich and poor. Zambia has a Gini coefficient score of 88.6. Mexico has one of the widest gaps between rich and poor. The top 10% of ...

Large rifts remain as United Nations climate talks tick down to a Friday deadline. A lot of the divide comes down to money, which nations have it and which do not. So it’s time for the diplomatic ...

The growing gap between prosperous and struggling Americans stems more from changes in marital patterns than any policies of Wall Street or Washington. A New York Times report shows that thirty years ...

Soaring unemployment has poured salt into a long-festering economic wound - the widening gap between rich and poor Americans, a trend that has been accompanied by a hollowing out of the middle class.

Organised Labour has called on the Federal Government to bridge the growing gulf between the rich and poor in the country. It warned that current economic and monetary policies are disproportionately ...

The Liberal cliché of standing up for the lower-class guy and the Conservative cliché of rising to the top because of independent hard work are myths, according to a senior fellow at the Brookings ...

WASHINGTON (AP) The gap in employment rates between America's highest- and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago, according to ...

— -- The income of American households continued to shift dramatically in 2011, falling sharply for middle-income and working-age people while rising for top earners and seniors, the Census ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama delivered a populist challenge Tuesday night to shrink the gap between rich and poor, promising to tax the wealthy ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tax systems that put a high burden on the poor mean public services are underfunded, stretching the gap between rich and poor and fuelling global public anger, Winnie Byanyima, ...

The Central African Republic has the widest gap between rich and poor. The Central African Republic’s income share gap between the top 10% and the bottom 50% is more than 67%. At Insider Monkey, we ...