Working Paper
Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset
Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach for addressing group-based inequalities along ethnic, religious, and racial lines (e.g. horizontal inequalities). It is adopted...
Working Paper
Climate justice for persons with disability
Building on Rawls’ theory of justice and Sen’s theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is responded to...
Working Paper
The legal basis for affirmative action in India
The affirmative action policy in India came into practice because of the generations of struggle undergone by the untouchable castes and other backward classes, who were historically excluded from education and administration. As society changed, it...
Blog
COVID-19 intensifies global need to support informal workers in their struggle: Three guiding principles for a better deal
by
Martha Chen
August 2020
The world is facing an existential crisis that poses challenging questions: whether to put people and nature before owners of capital and technology...