Call for papers: structural change, inequality, and inclusive growth
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 […]
Why is India’s economy not creating more jobs?
This week we take a closer look at the phenomena of ‘jobless growth’ in a new working paper by Anthony D’Costa. India’s Gross Domestic Product […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reward work, not wealth: Oxfam’s new report on global wealth inequality
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 […]
How Latin America bucked the trend of rising inequality
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 […]
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 […]
