Publications and media
The crisis of affordable housing in Jordan
> Jordan is in the throes of a property crisis: following a construction boom, sales have now collapsed and housing is ill-adapted to demand, > 18% of the housing stock is kept vacant in antici...
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Stakeholder engagement on inequality trends in South Africa – A multidimensional diagnostic of inequality
It is widely accepted that South Africa’s persistently high levels of inequality are not only a humanitarian crisis, they are also unsustainable and curb the country’s growth potential. Yet, despite e...
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EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities 2017-2020 synthesis
4-million euro program to better understand inequalities in low and middle income countries, the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequality was funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for...
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Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Paper
Very little attention has been paid to African inequality dynamics in high-profile international discussions of changing global inequality despite the fact that African dynamics will become increasing...
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The distributional impacts of development cooperation projects
In 2015, world leaders committed, through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to reduce inequalities. Accordingly, a specific Sustainable Development Goals Goal (SDG 10) has b...
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Water in the city of El Alto, a right that arrives incomplete
In Bolivia cities, statistics reflect a high access to water coverage and a lower coverage of basic sanitation. The phenomenon can be observed in the city of El Alto. A socio-economic analysis conduct...
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Social Housing and Spatial Inequality in South African Cities
Social housing can be a powerful tool for integrating socially divided cities by providing decent rental accommodation for low- and moderate-income working families in central urban areas. Yet as new...
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Social Housing and Upward Mobility in South African Cities
Not enough is being done to maximise the prospects of upward mobility for the tenants of South Africa’s social housing programme. Household-level improvements in well-being are generally taken for gra...
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Displaced Sand, Displaced People: Examining the Livelihood Impacts of Sand Mining
The social, economic and ecological consequences of unabated sand exploitation are profound. Sand miners, working directly in riverbed sand mining in and around Phnom Penh and urban farmers, whose liv...
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Environmental Inequalities in the Mekong River Basin: A systematic mapping of existing knowledge
How do accelerating environmental changes impact inequalities and how do rising inequalities affect, in reverse, environmental dynamics? Numerous studies have tackled one specific aspect of the relati...
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Inequality measurements: the impact of a correction for missing top incomes in a South African household surve...
Often the richest households are poorly captured in household surveys1, leading to a likely underestimate of inequality in analyses such as CEQ Assessments2 that conduct fiscal incidence using househo...
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South African housing subsidies: the challenges of measuring the impact of a productive asset
When analysing the impact of South African housing subsidies on poverty, Goldman, Woolard & Jellema (forthcoming) find that the housing programme looks less progressive than expected. They find both t...
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Fiscal Consolidation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Unequal Effects on Children’s Health
New research reveals that policies of fiscal consolidation (public spending cuts and/or tax rises) in sub-Saharan African countries are, on average, associated with higher infant mortality: the estima...
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Building Fiscal Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Local Inequality
Are people’s attitudes towards taxation affected by local levels of inequality in the provision of public goods such as electricity, healthcare, and education? New research on sub-Saharan Africa revea...
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Measuring Local Inequality: Insights from Data on Night Lights
Data on human emissions of light at night – as detected by satellites – provide valuable insights into the extent of inequality at the local level. New research uses the latest generation of night lig...
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Springs and collective laundries in the city of La Paz, notes for their management
The urban landscape of the city of La Paz hides a large number of underground rivers but reveals dozens of springs on its hillside territories. These springs have multiple meanings, mainly for women,...
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Inequalities and environmental changes in the Mekong region: A systematic mapping
How do accelerating environmental changes impact inequalities and how do rising inequalities affect in reverse environmental dynamics? This paper is built on a systematic mapping (2019-2021) studying...
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Displaced Sand, Displaced People: Examining the Livelihood Impacts of Sand Mining in Cambodia
This working paper focuses on the livelihood impacts of river sand mining in Cambodia. We draw on two examples: (a) that of sand miners, working directly in riverbed sand mining in and around Phnom Pe...
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The impact of the military-political crisis of 2002 on inequalities in Côte d’Ivoire
The military-political crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, sparked by an armed rebellion on September 19, 2002, increased inequalities in the CNW zone (Center, North, and West). However, even if they remained hi...
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Where do social inequalities come from in Côte d’Ivoire?
The LAMPE study on the determinants of social inequalities in Côte d’Ivoire1 shows a persistence of inequalities between 2008 and 2015. In particular, inequalities in participation in the labor market...
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Improving housing and access to sanitation in informal neighborhoods in Ouagadougou to reduce inequalities
The precarious housing conditions in informal settlements increase inequalities. Restructuring these neighborhoods by providing them with basic social services would be one of the solutions to improve...
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