This is not a one-year blip. The US has been underperforming in terms of health, education and more for the past 25 years.
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The film zeros in on the generation of children whose formative years are unfolding in front of screens.
Dads today are spending dramatically more time with their kids than they did a generation ago. But there’s a less encouraging trend tucked into this development.
Labour’s proposed capital gains tax has revived a debate long deemed politically toxic. But growing pressure on NZ’s tax system is making it harder to avoid.
Access to the internet in South Africa’s economic powerhouse, Gauteng, is marked by inequalities.
Subsidized insurance makes waterfront property seem safer than it is for wealthier buyers, while many low-income homeowners face repeat disasters with no help.
Water tankers are meant for emergencies but are fast becoming the norm for many communities.
Data show that South Africans have become more hostile towards immigrants.
Adolescents’ digital risks are shaped by inequality.
You don’t have to be born rich to make big money in Australia, but it certainly helps.
Today’s basic income proponents say cash payments would be good for everyone. In the 1790s, the idea’s inventor argued something else: It was owed to everyone.
Carbon capture projects could provide the funds needed to restore land degraded by commercial farming and forestry.
New research questions the “eco-anxiety” label and whether it really encompasses the complexity of the emotional, mental or physical distress young people feel over the planet’s woes.
Our report analyses both monetary and non-monetary value sharing schemes within companies and whether they are a way of avoiding social conflicts in the workplace.
Infrastructure reflects political choices.
Claims that genes determine intelligence, health and social outcomes are reappearing. But modern science shows environment and opportunity matter far more than genes.
In high and low income economies, women and girls bear the brunt of inequalities caused by water scarcity.
UK children are getting taller. The reason why reveals a troubling story about obesity, inequality and poverty.
Financial literacy gives women the knowledge, confidence and skills to engage in financial decision-making.
A just transition to a green economy with broad growth in employment will require deliberate efforts.
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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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Senior lecturer, University of Edinburgh
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford