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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)