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Financial liberalization and global inequality

This postcard by Stephany Griffith-Jones and E. A. Brett features in the World Social Report 2016. The authors argue that the increasing liberalization, deregulation and globalization of the financial system are a major cause for inequality, both nationally and internationally, and that a radical restructuring and regulation of the system are necessary to reverse this trend.

05 Apr 2019

Global inequality and the middle classes

This article by Branko Milanovic features in the World Social Science Report 2016. The article presents insights and draws out results concerning the nature of inequality, the political consequences and their implications. based  on trends of global income distribution between 1988 and 2008

04 Apr 2019

The invisible hands of racial inequality in the USA

This article by Fredrick C. Harris features in the World Social Science Report 2016. This contribution explores how institutional practices perpetuate racial inequality in the United States of America.

04 Apr 2019

Malaise in the Western middle classes

This article by Louis Chauvel and Anne Hartung features in the World Social Science Report 2016. This contribution presents the evolution of the income distribution in selected Western countries, and discusses the possible impact of the threat created by downward mobility and the erosion of the middle class in today’s society.

04 Apr 2019

Africa’s uprisings: no end in sight

This postcard by Adam Branch and Zachariah Mampilly features in the World Social Science Report 2016. The contribution discusses the wave of popular protests across Africa under the current neoliberal dispensation.

04 Apr 2019

Recent changes in income inequality in China

This article by Li Shi features in the World Social Science Report 2016. This contribution looks at recent data and underlines the policy measures that may explain why China's economy has experienced one of the fastest increases in income and wealth inequality in the world.

04 Apr 2019

Could changes in the international tax system be a strategy for dealing with inequality?

This postcard by Mick Moore features in the World Social Science Report 2016. Moore discusses the viability of changes in the international tax system for dealing with inequality, arguing that although such changes could be promising at the level of tax design, there remain many political obstacles.

04 Apr 2019

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