Discrimination and Affirmative Action: What have we learnt so far?

Discrimination and Affirmative Action: What have we learnt so far?

Fri, 30 October 2015 – Sat, 31 October 2015

UNU-WIDER will hold a 2-day workshop for 35 contracted researchers to present and jointly discuss their work-in-progress for an up-coming journal special issue. The special issue will be on the discussion of discrimination against marginalized groups and policies implemented to mitigate the effects of discrimination.

The workshop and the up-coming publication are part of UNU-WIDER’s ongoing Disadvantaged Groups and Social Mobility project.

Workshop participants
Top (from the left): Arnim Langer (University of Leuven), Adel Ben Youssef (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis), Clifford Afoakwah (University of Ghana), Mansoob Murshed (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Christophe Nordman (IRD, DIAL and IZA), Christian Basteck (Technical University of Berlin), Hemanshu Kumar (University of Delhi), Rajesh Ramachandran (Goethe University), Daniel Lee (Georgia State University), Silvia Napolitano (Roma Tre University), Elizabeth Kaletski (Ithaca College)
Middle (from the left): Pushkar Maitra (Monash University), Graham Brown (University of Western Australia), Sanjay Jain (University of Cambridge), Saurabh Singhal (UNU-WIDER), Chiara Mariotti (Overseas Development Institute), Yishen Liu (The George Washington University), Smriti Sharma (UNU-WIDER), Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business), Utteeyo Dasgupta (Wagner College), Dieter Von Fintel (Stellenbosch University)
Bottom (from the left): Fatima Dauda (CARE International Ghana), Rohini Somanathan (University of Delhi), Yao Pan (Aalto University), Juliana Silva Goncalves (Queensland University of Technology), Saugato Datta (ideas42), Ashwini Deshpande (University of Delhi), Eva O. Arceo-Gomez (CIDE), Subha Mani (Fordham University), Muhammad Badiuzzaman (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Daniela Grieco (Bocconi University), Finn Tarp (UNU-WIDER)

Team

Research fellow: Saurabh Singhal

Assistant: Minna Tokkari

Fri, 30 October 2015 – Sat, 31 October 2015
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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    Professor Ashwini Deshpande writes opinion piece on discrimination in Indian universities

    Ashwini Deshpande has written an opinion piece based on her recent WIDER Working Paper in the Indian independent journalism site The Wire. She writes about the widespread prevalence of discriminatory attitudes towards quota students in India that was...

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    Disadvantaged groups and social mobility

    Theme: Inclusion

    This project has three main objectives in line with UNU-WIDER’s tradition in the area of inclusion and horizontal inequality: (1) to shed further light on the extent to which inequalities run along ethnic, gender, and other communal lines; (2) to...

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