The politics of group-based inequalities – measurement, implications, and possibilities for change

This component of the ‘Disadvantaged Groups and Social Mobility’ project aims to shed new light on the extent to which inequalities run along ethnic, gender, and other communal lines, as well as understanding the determinants of these group-based inequalities, including the potential for change. Furthermore, the research considers impact of these inequalities on development and structural transformation. It complements previous work by UNU-WIDER on horizontal inequality and inclusive growth, with particular attention to distilling and developing key perspectives from political science and supporting interdisciplinary collaboration.

The research is organized into four broad areas:

  • Measurement of patterns and trends in group-based inequalities within and across countries
  • Political implications of group-based inequalities for democratic governance
  • Possibilities of mitigating group-based inequalities, with focus on rule of law and legal empowerment reforms
  • Forced migration and group-based inequality

Each area includes a collaborative component, which will form the basis of an edited collection on the topic. The work involves contributions from a diverse mix of senior and junior scholars from multiple institutions.

Research findings also will be communicated to research and policy communities through other freely-available academic publications, policy and research briefs, and targeted events.

This is part of the 'Disadvantaged groups and social mobility' project.

 

Team

Focal point: Rachel Gisselquist

Assistant: Kati Hirvonen

Communications: Annett Victorero

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    Rachel M. Gisselquist is Professor in Governance and Development, and Director of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC), at the University of Birmingham (UoB), UK.Prior to joining UoB in September 2024, she was a Senior...

    Book Chapter
    Tackling intersecting inequalities

    A concern with absolute poverty, defined as a money-metric measure of the ability to meet basic subsistence needs, has occupied a central place within the international development agenda for much of its existence. Efforts in recent years to promote...

    Policy Brief
    Can legal empowerment help to address ethnic exclusion?

    ‘Legal empowerment’ is defined as a process of systemic change through which the poor and excluded become able to use the law to protect and advance their rights and interests as citizens and economic actors. Since the 2000s, legal empowerment...

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    Inequality Between Whom?

    Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal inequality in the Global South

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    Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict

    Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

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    Can Business Rights Alleviate Group-Based Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa?

    Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

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    Using Legal Empowerment for Labour Rights in India

    Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

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    Legal Empowerment of the Poor through Property Rights Reform

    Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

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    Identity Documents, Welfare Enhancement, and Group Empowerment in the Global South

    Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

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    Access to What?

    Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

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    Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

    Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

    Journal Special Issue
    Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

    The articles in the forthcoming special issue are already available online on full open access. The special issue will be officially published in March 2019, vol. 55, issue 3. Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles...

    Blog
    Horizontal inequality: Exploring persistence and change

    A considerable body of recent research suggests that inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications. ‘Economists have long...

    Journal Special Issue
    Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change

    A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an independent...

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    Horizontal inequality as an outcome

    A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an independent...

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    Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala

    Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change

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    This project is part of Disadvantaged groups and social mobility

    Theme: Past, 2014-15

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