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Inequality and natural resources in Africa

This article by James C. Murombedzi features in the World Social Science Report 2016. Murombedzi highlights how the control of natural resources and access to them has underpinned processes of social stratification and class formation in Africa

03 Apr 2019

Inequalities and protests

This postcard by Isabel Ortiz and Sara Burke features in the World Social Science Report 2016. The contribution explores the implications of public protests as actions against inequalities and for attaining social justice.

03 Apr 2019

Rising economic and gender inequality: intersecting spheres of injustice

This article by Shahra Razavi features in the World Social Science Report 2016. Razavi argues that although the evidence for rising income inequality over the past four decades has triggered an array of analytical work, and has also resonated with the wider public, gender inequalities have appeared only tangentially in these largely ‘malestream’ political economy debates.

03 Apr 2019

Health and social justice in Egypt: towards a health equity perspective

This article by Soha Bayoumi features in the World Social Science Report 2016. Bayoumi discusses Egypt’s striking health inequities and how they intersect with other inequities related to gender, socio-economic status, education levels, employment status and geographical location.

02 Apr 2019

Wage and income inequality

This article by Patrick Belser features in the World Social Science Report 2016. This contribution discusses an International Labour Organization (ILO) report which found that changes in the distribution of wages and paid employment are key factors behind recent inequality trends in both developed and developing countries

02 Apr 2019

Horizontal inequalities

his article by Frances Stewart features in the World Social Science Report on Inequality (2016). Stewart explains what horizontal inequalities are, and why they may lead to violent conflict and can reduce the efficiency of resource allocation.

26 Sep 2018

Global instruments for tackling inequality: the African experience

This article for World Social Science Report on Inequality argues that global instruments tried in Africa have not addressed the structural roots of inequality and poverty

26 Sep 2018

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