Reducing social inequality: Why the scope of measures is crucial

In modern social research, sociological questions are increasingly being answered with the help of experiments; for example, ...
Institute for Fiscal Studies

From evidence to action: what six years of research tells us about challenging inequalities

We summarise the breadth of inequalities in the UK, their interconnected nature, and why policymakers need to carefully ...
Salon

Inequality is literally killing us: The most unequal societies suffer most in public health metrics

Adapted from "Inequality Kills Us All: Covid-19’s Health Lessons for the World," by Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H. In 1992, a publication appeared in the British Medical Journal written by Richard ...
The New York Times

Economists Ignored Inequality for Years. Now They Can’t Stop Talking About It.

A flurry of new books highlights broad disagreements over how to address the problem. “Most of us agree that inequality is a problem — even if we can’t agree on what that actually means and what to do ...
The Conversation

How African thinkers of the 1980s fed into today’s inequality debates

Inequality is an issue that arises everywhere in the world today. Recent studies by economists such as Branko Milanovic and Thomas Piketty have looked at trends in economic inequality on a global ...
The Conversation

Global inequality may be falling, but the gap between haves and have‑nots is growing

In one of the most unequal countries in the world, South Africa, the poorest 40% have annual incomes of less than US$1,000 (£727) per person. The comparable incomes for the richest 10% are more than ...