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Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Multidimensional Perspectives and Future Challenges

Anda David, Rawane Yasser Murray Leibbrandt, Vimal Ranchhod - The Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Repensar las desigualdades hoy

Y. Sarduy Herrera (comp.) - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO

The craft of meaningful stakeholder engagement in social science research: Lessons from a Research Project on Leadership and (In)equality in Greenland

Free Access Chapter In The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement
Mette Apollo Rasmussen - Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University (RUC)

From the bottom 40 to inequality lines. Sharing prosperity globally and domestically

Borja Lopez-Noval et al. - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Does Public Redistribution Crowd Out Private Transfers? Evidence from Four Countries

Alistair Cameron, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra et al. - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI)

Mozambique in post-election turmoil. Economic policies that could make a difference

Sam Jones - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

The Norwegian Parliament decides how to proceed with the Truth and Reconciliation Process

Astrid Nonbo Andersen, Astri Dankertsen & Amalie Drage Habbestad - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

To connect a system to more of itself

Seye Abimbola - Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA)

Discrimination in track recommendation but not in grading: experimental evidence among primary school teachers in Hungary

European Sociological Review
Dorottya Kisfalusi, Zoltán Hermann, Tamás Keller - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERS

Reclaiming Energy. Public pathways to break the fossil fuel cycle

Lavinia Steinfort, Rowan Mataram, James Angel - Transnational Institute TNI
What if energy could be reclaimed as a global public good, free from profit-driven systems and rooted in justice? The Reclaiming Energy report offers systemic solutions to the climate crisis, advocating decolonial, democratic governance and transformative public–community partnerships. By redefining energy and resource justice, it charts a clear path toward a just, sustainable, and democratic future.
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Differences in the risk of frailty based on care receipt, unmet care needs and socio-economic inequalities: a longitudinal analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

The Journal of Frailty & Aging
David Sinclair, Asri Maharani, Andrew Clegg, et al. - Global Development Institute (GDI)

Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–2011

The Journal of Economic History
Pablo Astorga - Red Española de Estudios del Desarrollo (REEDES) Red Española de Estudios del Desarrollo (REEDES)

Pauvreté, inégalités et développement : entretien avec François Bourguignon

Florent Bresson, Francois Bourguignon - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI)

Spain’s complex demographic reality

William Chislett - Real Instituto Elcano

Twin transition trade based on multi-dimensional economic complexity

Mercedes Menéndez De Medina - UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT

Structural Change, Employment, and Inequality in Europe: an Economic Complexity Approach

Bernardo Caldarola et al. - UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT

Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world

Global Environmental Change
Harald Sterly et al. - International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC)

Inequality perception and preferences globally and locally

The Journal of Economic Inequality
Attila Gáspár et al. - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERS

Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour

Journal of Economic Inequality
Paul Segal, Michail Moatsos - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)

'You have to know to wait' Entangling Im/mobilities, Temporalities and Aspirations in Planned Relocation Studies

Open Access Book: Entangled Future Im/mobilities
Jana Donat, Petra Dannecke - Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna

Assembling Indigenous Climate Observatories: Local knowledge for Local Action

Lizette Reitsma, Diana Azlyn William, Meshack N. Dludlu, Gugu Sibandze - School of Arts and Communication, University Malmö (K3)

Does the Kuznets Curve still matter 70 years on? Yes! Here’s why

Ravi Kanbur, Andy Sumner, Kunal Sen - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Organised Violence, Inequality and Work: Violence Specialists as a Classed Occupation

Critical Sociology
Raúl Zepeda Gil - Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID)

Spain’s mixed education results

William Chislett - Real Instituto Elcano

The Inequality Diagnostic Report : Indonesia

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Crisis Governance, (De)Mobilisation and New Inequalities: The Legacy of COVID-19

Critical Sociology
Emina Bužinkić, James Foley, Ewan Kerr - Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO)

Rethinking the Care Economy and Promoting Gender Equality for All Ages by Reducing and Redistributing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work

Adriana Conconi, Francisco Cos-Montiel, Anna Eknor Ackzell, et al. - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Uneven Spatial Development: a review of theories and methods

Geir Inge Orderud - Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research NIBR

A tale of two cities: Can electricity supply save lives without deepening divides?

Joshua Budlender - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

The Corporate Grip on Inequality: A Call for Public Action

Global Research Programme on Inequality GRIP

A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations

The Lancet Planetary Health
Joyeeta Gupta, Xuemei Bai,Diana M Liverman, Prof Johan Rockström et al. - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)  |  IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft)
Our planet will only remain able to provide even the most basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, a new report shows. The report is co-authored by over sixty leading natural and social scientists from the Earth Commission, led by the University of Amsterdam's Joyeeta Gupta as well as Prof. Xuemei Bai and Prof. Diana Liverman.
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“Navigating the polycrisis” by Michael J. Albert: a review

James Copestake - Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath (CDS)

Does Increasing Concentration Hit Poorer Areas More? A Study of Retail Petroleum Markets

The Journal of Industrial Economics
Peter L. Ormosi, Farasat A. S. Bokhari, Sean Ennis, Franco Mariuzzo - School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV)

What happens when you tax the rich?

Christopher Axelson, Jukka Pirttilä, Antonia Hohmann, Roxanne Raabe, Nadine Riedel - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Can preferences for redistribution explain the impact of austerity on political participation? Evidence from the UK

Oxford Bulleting of Economics and Statistics
Patricia Justino, Bruno Martorano, Laura Metzger - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

WIDER Annual Lecture Brief | The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century

Gabriel Zucman - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Changing carbon footprints and the consequent impacts of carbon taxes and cash transfers on poverty and inequality across years: A Peruvian case study

Energy Policy
Daniele Malerba, Federico Roscioli, Anja Gaentzsch, Hauke Ward - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality

Jennifer Clapp, Rorden Wilkinson -

Studying Poverty and Inequality in Poor Countries: Getting to Grips with Structure

Philippa Bevan - Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath (CDS)

Inequality and institutional outcomes in Viet Nam. A combined principal components and clustering analysis.

Thu K. Hoang, Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon, Hoai Thi Thu Dang. Rachel M. Gisselquist - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Social inequality in Mozambique

Moisés Siúta Felix, Mambo Ivan Manhique, Muna Shifa, Bento Munkuka - The Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Revisiting the trends in global inequality

World Development
Carlos Gradín - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Panamá sigue siendo un país marcado por la desigualdad

K. Batthyány - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO

Reframing infrastructure, reshaping development

Michael Cohen - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

The merger of populations as a revision of comparison space: Repercussions for social stress and income inequality

ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF

Inequality 2.0

Laura Kelly - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Feminist political economy is essential for understanding inequality

Sara Stevano - The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London SOAS

Decoding development – insights from UNU-WIDER's synthesis process and beyond

Timothy Shipp - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

A GIS-based assessment of different income groups’ access to multiple types of green areas in Budapest, Hungary

György Csomós, Jenő Zsolt Farkas, Zoltán Kovács - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERS

Reducing inequalities: how should we measure and monitor SDG Goal 10?

Francesco Savoia, Ioannis Bournakis, Mona Said, Antonio Savoia - OECD Development Centre OECD/DC

América Latina desigual

G. Benza and G. Assusa - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO

Policy Insights: AI and Digital Inequities

Moira Faul (edt.) - Network for international policies and cooperation in education and training NORRAG

Unveiling the effect of income inequality on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Does financial inclusion matter?

Science Direct
Alex O. Acheampong, Eric Evans Osei Opoku, & Godsway Korku Tetteh - UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT

Immigration, employment, productivity and inequality in Spain

Carmen González Enríquez - Real Instituto Elcano

A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms

Work, Employment and Society
Alacovska, Ana; Bucher, Eliane; Fieseler, Christian - Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)

Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South

The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality
Giulia Casentini, Laura Hammond, Oliver Bakewell - Global Development Institute (GDI)

Gendered Migration in the Global South: An Intersectional Perspective on Inequality

The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality
Tanja Bastia, Nicola Piper - Global Development Institute (GDI)

Growth, inequality and the future of development: shaping ODID’s climate stance

Stephanie Debere - Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID)

Bridging the gap: Mismatch effects and catch-up dynamics under a Brazilian college affirmative action program

Economics of Education Review
Rodrigo Oliveira, Alei Santos, & Edson Severnini - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India

World Development
Ashwini Deshpande & Naila Kabee - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Gender differences in the relationship between income inequality and health in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey data

SSM - Population Health
Lin Li - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)

Is the era of declining global income inequality over?

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
Ravi Kanbur, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Andy Sumner - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)

Breaking the Vicious Circles of Informal Employment and Low-Paying Work

OECD - OECD Development Centre OECD/DC

High wage inequality in South Africa – are employers to blame?

Shakeba Foster - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Subsidies and the income inequality in the Hungarian wine sector

Wine Economics and Policy
Imre Fertő and Stefan Bojnec - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERS

Relative Deprivation and Hey and Lambert’s Motivation: Mixed Methods Evidence from Rio de Janeiro

Journal of Income Distribution
Lucio Esposito, Sunil Kumar, Adrián Villaseñor, Roney Souza - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)

How to unravel pathbreaking trajectories in the left-behind areas of Istanbul?

Regional Science Policy & Practice
Ebru Kurt Özman, Tuna Taşan-Kok, Gülden Erkut - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)

Returns to education and wage inequality in Namibia. A gendered analysis

Obrein Muine Samahiya, Ebenezer Lemven Wirba - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Rainfall shocks and inequality have heterogeneous effects on farmers' seed purchase decisions in East Africa

Climate Risk Management
Clifton Makate, Arild Angelsen, Stein Terje Holden, Ola Tveitereid Westengen - Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)

Portugal’s iequality regime: many contradictions, multiple pressures

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
Alexandre Abreu - Centre for African and Development Studies CESA-ISEG

Young adults and pensioners: too deep a divide

William Chislett - Real Instituto Elcano

Differences in inequality measurement. Ghana case study

Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio, Robert Darko Osei - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

World Income Inequality Database (WIID) Explorer

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
The World Income Inequality Database (WIID), hosted and maintained by UNU-WIDER for more than 20 years, is now accessible via a new explorer. The WIID Explorer is a powerful tool for accessing and analysing the most comprehensive collection of income inequality statistics in the world. It allows users to create and display data visualizations by accessing the WIID Companion datasets in real time. Users can explore inequality data by country, region, or world and over time by years selected, while creating compelling charts or tables of their data selection.
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Minimum wages and changing wage inequality in India

Saloni Khurana, Kanika Mahajan, Kunal Sen - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

A Twofold Subjective Measure of Income Inequality

Social Indicators Research
Attila Gáspár et al. - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERS

Inequality, social mobility and redistributive preferences

UNU-MERIT Working Paper
Isabel Günther & Bruno Martorano - UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT

Multiple meanings of “equitable food systems”: food systems and discursive politics of change

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Greta Juskaite*, Ruth Haug - Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)

Crises of Inequality: Shifting Power for a New Eco-Social Contract—Research and Policy Brief

Katja Hujo & Maggie Carter - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Trends in racial inequality in greater Johannesburg

Owen Crankshaw - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Great Gatsby and the Global South. Intergenerational mobility, income inequality, and development

Open access book
Diding Sakri, Andy Sumner, Arief Anshory Yusuf - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
In the Global South economic mobility across generations or intergenerational economic mobility is in and of itself an important topic for research with consequences for policy. It concerns the 'stickiness' or otherwise of inequality because mobility is concerned with the extent to which children's economic outcomes are dependent on their parents' economic outcomes. This open access book presents a new estimate for a developing country, namely Indonesia; it discusses the 'Great Gatsby Curve' and highlights the different positions of developed and developing countries
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Multi-dimensional inequalities, climate governance and livelihoods in sub-saharan Africa

Britta RENNKAMP Murray LEIBBRANDT - The Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Technology, Gender and Inequality in the 21st Century

Francisco Cos-Montiel - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Reducing global inequality - options for change

The Lancet Planetary Health
Joel Millward-Hopkins & Yannick Oswald - Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI)

Inequality is a barrier to social justice. Here is how it can be overcome

UNRISD - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Inequalities in education from a global perspective. Theoretical approaches, dimensions and policy discussions

Margarita Langthaler, Julia Malik - Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE)

Addressing power dynamics and inequity in institutional partnership models

Tracy Kajumba - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India

Journal of Peace Research
H Zeynep Bulutgil, Neeraj Prasad - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)

Reducing global inequality to secure human wellbeing and climate safety: a modelling study

The Lancet Planetary Health
Joel Millward-Hopkins, Yannick Oswald - Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI)

Inequality and social cohesion in Africa: theoretical insights and an exploratory empirical investigation

Francesco Burchi, Gabriela Zapata-Román - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

The evolution of inequality in Mozambique

1996/97–2019/20
Giulia Barletta et al. - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Changing patterns of mobility and accessibility to culture and leisure: Paradox of inequalities

Cities
Evinc Dogan & Daniela Angelina Jelinčić - Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO)

Impacts of Meeting Minimum Access on Critical Earth Systems amidst the Great Inequality

Nature Sustainability
Crelis F. Rammelt, Joyeeta Gupta, Diana Liverman, Joeri Scholtens, Daniel Ciobanu, Jesse F. Abrams et al. - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)
This nature-paper focuses on just access for the most disadvantaged to resources and services for either a dignified life beyond mere survival or an escape from poverty. It defines minimum just access levels, shows the impacts of achieving such just access levels on critical Earth systems and discusses these in the context of the Great Inequality and the implications for redistribution
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The impact of Carbon Taxation and Revenue Redistribution on Poverty and Inequality

Malerba Daniele, Xiangjie Chen, Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek and Yannick Oswald - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Engaging with Religious Inequality in Humanitarian Response: A Case Study from Iraq 2014–2019

Jeremy Barker - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Crises of Inequality: Shifting Power for a New Eco-Social Contract

Katja Hujo et al. - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
This UNRISD flagship report associates the multiple crises and increasing inequalities we are facing with policy choices promoted during the age of neoliberal hyperglobalization. It unpacks the implications for sustainable development and for disadvantaged social groups through the lenses of intersectionality and power. It proposes the creation of a new eco-social contract and a policy approach based on alternative economies, transformative social policies, and reimagined multilateralism and strengthened solidarities
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The climate change – inequality nexus: towards environmental and socio-ecological inequalities with a focus on human capabilities

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
Alexia Faus Onbargi - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Ethnic inequality, the federal character principle, and the reform of Nigeria’s presidential federalism

WIDER Working Paper 113/2022
Rotimi T. Suberu - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Experimental politics in a future of global crises

Adam Moe Fejerskov - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities

Development and Change
Paul Segal - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)

Post Covid-19 firm-level government support in Egypt: uneven allocation and unequal effects

Amirah El-Haddad, Chahir Zaki - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Inequality can double the energy required to secure universal decent living

Nature Communications
Joel Millward-Hopkins - Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI)

Economic and cultural determinants of elite attitudes toward redistribution

Matias López, Graziella Moraes Silva, Chana Teeger, Pedro Marques - Department of Government Uppsala University

Inequality is not an inevitable consequence of economic development

Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana et al. - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

The Developer's Dilemma

Structural Transformation, Inequality Dynamics, and Inclusive Growth
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kunal Sen, Andy Sumner, Arief Yusuf (eds.) - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
This open access book delves into the tension between Simon Kuznet's hypothesis about economic development's worsening effect on income inequality, and the pursuit of greater equality in developing countries through inclusive development. The book uses comparative case studies to analyse structural transformation, income inequality, and inclusive growth
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Migration and inequalities in the Global South: Conference reflections

Juno Ellison - Global Development Institute (GDI)

The global inequality boomerang

Ravi Kanbur, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Andy Sumner - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)

Growth with Adjectives: Global Poverty and Inequality after the Pandemic

Center for Global Development Working Paper
Christopher Hoy, Andy Sumner - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)

Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons

Journal of Political Ecology
Elia Apostolopoulou et al. - Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP)

Inequalities and environmental changes in the Mekong region

Etienne Espagne, Huynh Thi Phuong Linh, Stéphane Lagrée, Alexis Drogoul - The Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam

Tung Duc Phung & Thanh Minh Pham - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Are Asia’s rising middle classes champions for more inclusive societies?

OECD Development Matters
Antoine Bonnet & Alexandre Kolev - OECD Development Centre OECD/DC

Just transitions: a review of how to decarbonise energy systems while addressing poverty and inequality reduction

Daniele Malerba - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Ethnic inequality and forced displacement

PLoS ONE
Moritz Hennicke and Tilman Brück - International Security and Development Center gGmbH (ISDC)

Every Voice Counts: Addressing Inequality in Research and Development

Tracy Kajumba & Marina Mayer - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

The Global Inequality Boomerang

Ravi Kanbur, 1Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Andy Sumner - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)  |  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

COVID-19: the disease of inequality, not of globalization

Binyam Afewerk Demena, Peter A.G. van Bergeijk & Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
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