How to move mountains on inequality
In this week’s blog, Ben Phillips considers the global concentration of power and wealth and the struggle to reduce inequality through grassroots activism. January saw […]
Inclusive growth
Immiserising growth: can growth go wrong for the poor?
In this week’s blog, Paul Shaffer considers the understudied phenomenon of ‘Immiserising Growth’: economic growth that makes the poor worse off. Immiserizing Growth (ImG) refers […]
Structural transformation and wage inequality in Asia
This week in a guest post, Bruno Martorano and Marco Sanfilippo consider the tension between Asia’s economic growth miracle and rising inequality in the region. […]
India: lost in transformation?
India transitioned to ‘middle-income country’ status a decade ago and is projected to top the list of the world’s most populous countries by 2030, according […]
Brazil: crisis-ridden, yet more equal
In recent years, Brazil has been hitting the headlines with a joint economic and political crisis of historic proportions. It included corruption scandals, presidential impeachment, […]
A New Year’s Resolution on Wage Inequality
In a guest post, economist Neil McCulloch considers new years resolutions and wage inequality. Like many others today, I spent a bit of time pondering […]
The see-saw effects of inequality
When commentators refer to rising inequality, they mostly mean increased inequality in rich countries like the US. But while national inequality may have increased in […]
South Africa’s jobs crisis: doubling down on the ‘triple challenge’
The Republic of South Africa – both among Africa’s richest and most unequal economies – is facing a triple socio-economic challenge: The challenge, Morné Oosthuizen […]
Levelling the playing field from life chances to the labour market
Imagine how the life chances for the two following children could be: first, a five-year-old girl, born and raised in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province, […]
Shrinking manufacturing employment is “bad news for developing countries”
What are the implications of premature deindustrialisation? What—if anything—is so special with manufacturing? How can we make sense of recent growth episodes in the developing […]
