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Inequality and political conflict

This article by Gudrun Østby features in the World Social Science Report 2016. This contribution summarizes the literature on how inequality relates to political conflict.

Inequalities in the Arab region

This article by Adam Hanieh features in the World Social Science Report 2016. Social and economic inequalities remain among the most pressing developmental issues for the Arab region. This contribution examines some of the quantitative and qualitative trends in inequality for the Arab world, and explores their relationship to contemporary political dynamics.

Inequality in India: drivers and consequences

This article by Jayati Ghosh features in the World Social Science Report 2016. The contribution discusses how the benefits of growth remain very unevenly distributed across the population of India following the internal and external economic liberalization measures of the 1980s.

Representing and challenging inequality through the arts

This postcard by Mike van Graan features in the World Social Science Report 2016. This contribution focuses on how inequality is embedded in both the production and consumption of art and how art can potentially challenge existing inequality.

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

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.

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.

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