High inequality can reflect a lack of opportunities for socioeconomic mobility, which can further hinder prospects for inclusive growth and poverty reduction over time. Faster and more inclusive ...

Gender inequality costs sub-Saharan Africa an average of $95 billion each year according to an annual United Nations Development Programme report published Sunday.

This paper describes how wealth inequality may distort public resource allocation. A government seeks to allocate limited resources to productive sectors, but sectoral productivity is privately known ...

After discussing their more important and illuminating characteristics, we conclude that these relationships are likely to reflect a sensitivity of health and social problems to the scale of social ...

There are two notable features of John Bell’s assessment of his own momentous work . While he actively defended his discoveries against emerging criticism that ...

Medicine is now the nation’s largest employer, but its growth may be slowing.

When you compose a document and need either a subscript or a superscript – the little numbers you put beside words to indicate a footnote or by numbers for exponents – Microsoft Word gives you ...

Outcomes Understand key concepts and theories of comparative political economy Apply comparative political economic theory to compare institutions, policies and outcomes across countries and over time ...

George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is full of the sounds and energy of 1920s New York. Radzi Chinyanganya introduces the piece and tells us about Gershwin’s love of Jazz and Blues.

To avoid unoccupied base stations, we introduce the concept of a strong solution to max-product fuzzy relation inequalities in this paper. Such a strong solution enables all base stations take part in ...

This article deals with the dwell time stability problem of discrete-time positive linear switching delay systems with interval uncertainties. A new time-varying Lyapunov function is constructed by ...