A new study by Yale researchers found that inequalities in infrastructure can prevent sustainable urbanization. As countries around the globe become increasingly urbanized, socioeconomic inequalities ...

I have been putting this off for a while, but this semester I’ve finally decided to start my long-overdue column on socioeconomics. I decided to write this column because too many people at Tufts seem ...

Over winter break, I was back home in Beijing, China, where I was once again struck by the stark income inequality that defines so much of our society. This inequality does not hit me as hard when I’m ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...

Murray Leibbrandt receives research funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, The Agence Française de Développement (AFD), The United ...

Imraan Valodia and the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies receive funding from a number of local and international foundations that support academic research. Inequality remains on the top of the ...