Twenty years ago, Brazil and South Africa were in a similar position when it comes to inequality. Brazil has made significant progress in addressing this, but South Africa hasn’t.
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After two decades of democracy, economic inequality in South Africa remains very high. Survey comparability issues make analysing trends tricky, but it is clear that overall income inequality has not fallen…
For all the economic success that China has enjoyed in recent decades, such as record levels of poverty reduction and growth in real per capita consumption, a consistent conclusion of academic research…
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Fellow in Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
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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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Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University
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Professor of Economics and South African Research Chair in the Economics of Social Policy, Stellenbosch University
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Reader in International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
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Economist, CSIRO
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Professor Emeritus, Economics & Finance, University of Houston-Clear Lake
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Co-Director, Institute for Economic Justice, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Cambridge
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
