Simon Kuznets was an economist who made seminal contributions to the study of growth, development, inequality and economic history. He was awarded the Nobel prize […]
This week’s blog is a new call for papers for the annual Development Studies Association conference. The theme this year is global inequalities and we’re […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Davos is here again, and Deborah Hardoon runs us through highlights of Oxfam’s new report on prosperity and poverty, wealth and work. Gotta love a […]
In this week’s post, Alice Evans considers the fall in inequality in Latin America. Income inequality is gaining attention. The good news is that we […]
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, […]
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 […]
