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Governments around the world lose about US$125 billion in revenues every year because of profit shifting to tax havens.
Inequality has reached untenable levels – public spending and wealth taxes are needed.
South Africa has a low number of male teachers in the foundation phase. Why this must change.
The most likely explanation for the unrest lies not in Beijing’s influence over the city, but rather the nature of Hong Kong government and society itself.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation, like South Africa itself, is a symbol of contradictions. While there are bad people who work for it, there are also many good ones.
Why a spontaneous popular movement emerged in Hong Kong.
Studies suggest that marriage improves your health. But bisexuals don’t seem to reap those benefits.
Foreign universities can provide quality education while also opening avenues for global research. However, initiatives must be put in place to make sure they are accessible to all Indonesians.
The key to arresting galloping inequality in Australia comes down to housing policy and reversing spiralling housing costs.
Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
Single parents and unmarried parents who live together spend less on their children than married parents.
Women’s football has made great strides, but when it comes it comes to media coverage, governance or funding, female athletes still suffer greatly from gender bias.
The Institute for Health and Welfare issued an “errata” to correct statements about inequality that were perfectly correct.
South Africa and Nigeria need to lead policy debates on long term measures to address migration in Africa.
Freedom of Information documents show the Bureau of Statistics spent a good deal of effort toning down news of rising inequality. The Productivity Commission seems to have been at it too.
In his valedictory address, outgoing secretary of the Prime Minister’s Department Martin Parkinson, condemned “entrenched disadvantage” in Australia.
A fundamental driver of inequality is the race to the bottom in how governments set their corporate tax rates.
Better data would tell us more about the ultrawealthy, but they really do seem to be growing more wealthy, more quickly, than the rest of us.
Income is a useful measure for tracking economic progress over time. But a broader lens is needed to understand the relational and often political ways in which poverty emerges and is reproduced.
Top contributors
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
