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Dr Pia Rattenhuber on inequality in crises — An interviewHow do crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic influence inequality and the other way around? This year’s UN Day Dresden put a spotlight on “ Inequalities in Crises ”...
Inequality COVID-19 CrisisJournal Article
Normalizing necessity?: Support networks and racial inequality in NamibiaCommunity support is a critical source to sustain livelihoods in the Global South. At the same time, these practices can exhibit unequal dynamics such as disincentives, hierarchies, or adverse inclusion of individuals...
Inequality Race Social networksPolicy Brief
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Working together to better understand how COVID-19 affects poverty and inequalityIn summer 2020 the SOUTHMOD team set out, with partners, to analyse the impact of government policies on protecting households from getting poorer and avoiding societies from becoming more unequal...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyPolicy Brief
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Ethnography and social mobility: A reviewPart of Journal Special Issue Social mobility in developing countries
Ethnography Inequality MigrationBook Chapter
The state of knowledge about social mobility in the developing worldFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Inequality IncomeJournal Article
The political economy of the resource curse: A development perspectiveThis article reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to key development outcomes...
Resource abundance Inequality InstitutionsWorking Paper
The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003–19): A descriptive analysisIn this paper we use different sources of data on job task content to investigate the importance of occupations and the intensity of routine tasks embodied in them in explaining changes in employment and earnings in Brazil, in particular their relati...
Brazil Inequality PolarizationWorking Paper
The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemicThis paper analyses the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related tax-benefit measures in 2020 in a cross-country comparative perspective for five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertySeminar
Inequality, institutions, and their impacts on social cooperation with Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal
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Kanika Mahajan – IEA featured economist interview
Kanika Mahajan, a researcher engaged in UNU-WIDER's project on 'The changing nature of work and inequality', is the August 2021 featured economist of the International Economic Association (IEA)...
Inequality Labour economics Gender