Wealth inequality in South Africa is not only intolerably high, its also not reducing.
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White men have historically and disproportionately held official, managerial and professional occupations. But women and people of color are slowly gaining.
When a country becomes more diverse,
new demographic tensions may emerge between people who feel that they own their country’s identity – and people who feel they’ve been left out.
Thanks to demographic and political changes, Democratic contenders are addressing this issue for the first time.
As South Africa marks 25 years of freedom, many citizens have to contend with the harsh reality that they can’t eat democracy.
Half of South Africa’s population remain chronically poor, and the quarter in-between struggle to stay out of reach of destitution.
A country’s tax policies say a lot about what it values – and some of America’s tend to promote inequality.
Reparations has emerged as a hot topic among Democratic candidates hoping to replace Trump in 2020. But until now, the issue has only rarely received national attention.
Thousands of Central American migrants are trying to cross the U.S. southern border. One scholar followed their paths to find out why they make the dangerous, sometimes deadly, journey.
A new report shows Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people still face overt racism and stark inequality – politicians must drive change.
The promised tax cuts will benefit high earners in 2022 and 2024, but by then they’ll need it.
The Labor Party has signalled that equality and fairness will form the centrepiece of its policy framework - but there will be challenges to that if it wins office in May.
School’s out – but are the holidays equally enjoyable for all young people, or a time when inequality is magnified?
Democratic lawmakers have offered a number of ways to reverse decades of widening economic inequality. A tax expert gives them a closer look.
The action plan offers no information about budgets, oversight, clear standards for measuring progress or accountability mechanisms.
The planet’s wealthiest people are directly responsible for most of the world’s carbon emissions.
There are at least eight different ways to view gender equality. And this helps us understand why one of the biggest challenges for workplace gender equality is defining and measuring success.
Jenny Macklin on inequality and Labor values
In this podcast she tells The Conversation a Labor government would fix "one of the worst" problems of the NDIS by abolishing the cap on the number of staff that could be employed in the agency.
Land reform programme has done very little to improve access to land for black South Africans.
In the past few decades, there’s been more critique of global knowledge inequalities and the global North’s dominance.
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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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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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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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
