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Report from the WIDER Development Conference on reducing inequality
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For several decades, UNU-WIDER has actively worked on pathfinding and groundbreaking research on inequalities. We host one of the most extensive...

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Reducing inequality — the great challenge of our time
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Early in October 2022, international and Colombian researchers gathered together for three days at the UNIANDES campus, located at the foot of the...

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Conspicuous consumption for social parity

The extant literature on status-signalling primarily adopts Veblen’s theory of class to caste and racial identities. This study aims to adopt a more suitable theoretical lens that is more relevant not only for class identities, but also for other...

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Disadvantaged groups and social mobility

Theme: Inclusion

This project has three main objectives in line with UNU-WIDER’s tradition in the area of inclusion and horizontal inequality: (1) to shed further light on the extent to which inequalities run along ethnic, gender, and other communal lines; (2) to...

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Discrimination and affirmative action - what have we learnt so far?

Theme: Inclusion

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