South Africa’s inequality levels are stark. The rich are super rich, the poor very poor. There’s a gaping hole in the middle and this is the greatest threat to stability.
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New research shows how cities are tackling the issues usually dealt with by states and the federal government
Six hundred years separate two post-election protests, but the issues at hand are strangely similar and the mistakes too easily repeated.
Too often, we think of “democracy” as what happens during an election campaign – but it goes much deeper than that.
Some economists and others have argued smart machines are increasingly stealing our jobs. In fact, the opposite may be true.
Global coverage of the Nepal earthquake focused issues of preparedness and political instability but missed the systemic, historical inequities that made the disaster so devastating.
No party is offering a wealth tax or anything equivalent to tackle UK inequality.
British orgainsed labour has remained relevant despite the onslaught suffered during the 1980s, but it lacks the institutional structure that would make the future secure.
Our policy-makers know perfectly well how to reduce inequality and tackle political favouritism. The question is, will this federal budget even try?
Mixed-income housing has been promoted as a panacea to concentrated poverty and crime. But recent research raises some red flags.
Five years of Coalition government later, it is clear that the poorest have paid most dearly as a result of various tax and benefit changes.
Hard hitting questions were promised but Channel 4 show ended up missing the mark.
Once China claimed to lead the way in equality for women. Today, women are warned they will be “leftovers” if they don’t produce children.
If every policy decision must pass the ‘fairness test’, will Australia end up making unfair decisions?
Business as usual in education is not going to heal the widening divisions between the privileged and disadvantaged.
One wants to spend £60,000 on a council house the other thinks it costs the same to build a conservatory.
For decades, public housing stood as the most architecturally visible and politically stigmatized reminder of urban poverty in many American cities. Originally built to accommodate an upwardly mobile segment…
When we think about income and wealth inequalities we are tempted to lay blame on the old way of doing things. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty picks out inherited money as a driver…
Oxfam is making what might appear to be a manifestly sound moral case when it urges political leaders at the global economic conference at Davos to adopt particular policies to reduce economic inequality…
When the great and the good met at last year’s Davos event to discuss the major global challenges to prosperity and well-being, it was clear that one theme dominated all others – inequality. But has anything…
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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 Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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