Redistribution must recognise that most workers are in informal employment.
- Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
The story of oil is focused on the US. But our oil-centred world was made through wider global relations.
Le monde a besoin d’analyses solides sur les inégalités. D’où la nécessité de créer un panel international sur la question.
There is a great institutional need for strong inequality analysis. That’s why the world needs to establish an International Panel on Inequality.
Les élites ont souvent façonné ou manipulé les politiques publiques de manière à protéger leurs intérêts et à renforcer les inégalités.
Elites have often shaped or manipulated state policies in ways that protect their interests and reinforce inequality.
If South Africa wants to make its own path in the global order, it must expect reprisals.
Tax experts usually refer to the three Es in taxes – equity, efficiency and ease of administration. A VAT increase, done properly, would tick all the boxes.
Reducing emissions, removing greenhouse gases, repairing ecosystems and building resilience are the four R’s that can save the planet.
This week, nations are hashing out new goals for climate finance at the COP29 talks. Loss and damage is finally on the agenda – but the chance of major new funding is low
Evidence suggests that a low-carbon transition could worsen gender inequalities if not properly addressed in climate policy.
The concept of care can serve as a powerful focal point for understanding the climate challenge and for policies toward a sustainable and equitable future.
Amitav Ghosh has used his storytelling prowess to outline the historical and political roots of climate change within systems of power and oppression.
Many African countries have a major youth unemployment problem. More must be done to create jobs and help young people develop the right skills.
Inequality is bad for politics, the economy, society and climate change.
South Africa needs a game-changer that is going to shift the economy onto a more employment-intensive growth path.
South Africa’s more plural political space might bring in new voices that generate better economic policies.
South Africa’s experience with renewable energy procurement provides valuable insights – what to do and what not to do – about management of the climate transition.
Changes in the law will ensure that companies can’t go on ignoring inequalities in earnings and wealth in South Africa.
African economic growth is central to what happens in this century to both global poverty and global inequality.
Efforts have been made to change the patterns of inequality in South Africa. But not enough has been done. Race-based inequality is still a real problem.
Experts across the board have identified inequality as a major challenge to efforts to end AIDS.
La COP27 a permis de réaliser des progrès sur le financement des pertes et dommages, il reste à voir si cela se traduira par des actions..
There were high expectations for COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. COP conferences broadly provide a platform for the negotiation of international…
Les conférences COP constituent en général une plateforme pour la négociation d'accords internationaux sur le changement climatique.
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