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As much as 31% of grant beneficiaries engage in informal work to ‘grow’ their income.
Why addressing inequality in ‘left-behind’ places requires more than ‘levelling up’.
Here’s why economists aren’t sure about humanity’s place in an automated future.
Self-service technologies — like self-checkouts or government service kiosks — are decreasing interactions with other people. This may affect our politics and sense of community.
Experiencing nature helps people in times of joy and pain. However, inequity of access to green spaces means that South Africans cannot enjoy nature when they need to.
Everyone likes getting something for nothing, but history shows why the math behind free public transit doesn’t add up.
Australia has been thought to be a less equal society than many European ones. But Australian incomes turn out to be as evenly distributed as those in France when everything is taken into account.
The water crisis is a women’s crisis. Women need to be equal partners in the process of creating more just and effective water governance systems.
The inequitable distribution of the benefits and harms of the food system is a violation of the constitutional right to food.
Policies that reduce poverty, inequality and socioeconomic insecurity lower the incentive to engage in or tolerate terrorism.
Food forests are urban oases that pack a lot into small spaces, including food production, local cooling and social connections.
Breaking the cycle of poverty for future generations requires talking about it with children now, and helping them understand the causes of economic inequality.
When government responses to a natural disaster do not address the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls, women tend to lose trust in the institutions.
Climate models embed colonial attitudes and massive inequality.
Farm consolidation, increasing land concentration and expanding investor ownership of farmland is leading to growing land inequality in the Canadian Prairies.
Very little attention has been paid to the justice implications of electricity distribution.
The pandemic put a spotlight on inequalities among college students. But students’ resources were unequal all along.
Social grants are the largest source of support for many vulnerable groups. They are the government’s primary response to poverty, food insecurity and inequality.
Raymond W. Baker says the estimated hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden wealth a decade ago has skyrocketed to trillions today.
Top contributors
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior lecturer, University of Edinburgh
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria