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South Africa has made remarkable progress in redressing its historically and mainly race based deprivations but a lot still needs to be done.
The ride-sharing app means different things in different countries. In Karachi and Lahore, it has highlighted economic inequalities.
Scotland’s failure to meet target illustrate a worldwide problem - the right to adequate heating and energy is not being properly recognised.
Demands being made by protesting students in South Africa purport to support the poor. But the most marginalised young people in the country will not benefit from free higher education.
A 700-page book of economics was never going to be a walk in the park.
South Africa’s 2016 medium term budget was awaited with bated breath amid rising political tensions, increasingly violent student protests and the threat of a credit downgrade.
As many as 30,000 delegates gathered to decide the future of cities for the next 20 years – here’s how it played out.
The painful effects of globalization and political corruption have decayed Americans’ trust in the federal government.
How can conversations around race, class and gender be allowed back into classrooms without becoming emotionally harmful and divisive?
Finding a way to reduce inequality is key not only to solving a host of other problems but also to rescuing America’s fast-disappearing middle class.
Recently published research has found that the concentration of poorer people in hotter places is a real problem for cities’ capacity to cope with climate change.
Some have suggested that deracialising the academy requires all researchers, teachers and students to link knowledge and identity. What might this mean for mathematics?
Trump’s noxiousness aside, it remains the economy, and the Democrats’ abandonment of their traditional base that explains Trump’s ascent, according to American commentator Thomas Frank.
This global conference will set out how cities should develop over the next 20 years, tackling some of humankind’s toughest issues.
Here’s how social and political power can come together in cities, to counteract the focus on short-term profit.
A new book on Buddhism in South Africa is more than a beautiful coffee table book. If Zen ever finds a foothold in Africa, the truths the book reveals could be seen as monumental.
When several South African universities merged, it was hoped this would improve access and equality. It had the opposite effect.
When South African inequality is discussed, the focus tends to be on income brackets. But the main problem is wealth inequality
A “buy now, pay later” model is well suited to financing higher education. Commercial bank loans are not viable. Government-backed loans with income-contingent repayment are the fair solution.
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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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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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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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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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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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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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
