Inequality
Inequality
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Insights & Analysis
The 'Depth' of Child Poverty — What the Relative Poverty Rate Cannot Tell Us
Japan's child relative poverty rate fell to 11.5% in the 2021 survey. Yet an improving 'rate' does not necessarily mean improving 'depth.' A 44.5% poverty rate among single-parent households, the paradox of the highest employment rate co-existing with the highest poverty rate among OECD nations, and the explosive growth of children's cafeterias all point to forms of deprivation that a single threshold cannot capture.
Insights & Analysis
The Acceleration of Global Wealth Concentration — The Top 0.001% Now Holds Three Times More Than the Bottom 50%
The World Inequality Report 2026 reveals the accelerating concentration of wealth. An analysis of the structural dynamics behind the top 0.001% holding roughly three times the assets of the bottom half of humanity, and the implications for social design.