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The International Inequalities Institute drives integrated research and teaching on inequality at LSE. Home of @afsee-lse.bsky.social.
💡 Research spotlight:

Our SOUTHMOD team is strengthening policy capacity across Latin America.

This year, the team have delivered specialised training for government partners in Bolivia, as well as Ecuador’s National Statistical Institute (INEC).

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November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
📣 Upcoming seminar:

Standard measures of poverty and income inequality often overlook how sharply the cost of living varies across places. Dr Beatriz Jambrina Canseco uses the case of Spain to explore this issue.

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November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
💡 Our Perceptions of Inequality programme is advancing our understanding of how people view and react to inequality.

Highlights include:
🔴 An international workshop (May 2025)
🔴 Two special journal issues
🔴 A new PhD & ECR Visiting Programme

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November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📄 New III working paper:

This paper analyses how intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity reflect the inheritability of inequality in Latin America, documenting high educational and income persistence driven by inherited circumstances.

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November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📣 Upcoming seminar:

@tarunkhaitan.bsky.social assesses discrimination law’s choice to only regulate discrimination in the state and the market, and not within the family.

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November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Ahead of the G20 summit, Jakob Dirksen asks: how are we measuring poverty and well-being?

To make progress on the SDGs and whatever comes after they “expire” in 2030, what single thing should the G20 focus their attention on?
@ophioxford.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
💡 Research spotlight:

Our Gender Justice and the Wellbeing Economy programme brought partners together for the first time at their two-day workshop at LSE in May 2025.

This allowed for a collective discussion on the longer-term agenda of the programme.

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November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
💡 Research spotlight:

Supported by @jrf-uk.bsky.social, III researchers have explored how to shift UK public attitudes to wealth.

Key outputs include JRF’s 'Talking about Wealth Inequality' report, plus a 6-part podcast by @wealtherty.bsky.social.

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November 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📣 Upcoming III seminar:

Professor Peter Lanjouw considers the accuracy of estimates by the World Bank, which suggest that poverty in India has dramatically declined.

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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🔜 Next week!

We are excited to be joined by Emma Chamberlain, @helenmiller.bsky.social, @maharafiatal.bsky.social, and @mikesavagelse.bsky.social to discuss why it is so important for the Chancellor to address current wealth trends in her upcoming budget.

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November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📣 New III working paper by Enrico Nichelatti, Annalena Oppel and Abrams Tagem:

This paper demonstrates that floods are not merely environmental shocks but powerful drivers of inequality that interact with South Africa's pre-existing spatial, racial, and economic disparities.

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November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A landmark G20 report led by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz has sounded the alarm on an ‘inequality emergency’.

We welcome the setting up of an International Panel on Inequality and we hope to support this important work in the future.

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November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📣 Our 2025 annual report is now online!

This report highlights our work over the past year, which continues to shape debates, inform policy, and foster collaborations across disciplines and national borders.

Read it now ⬇️
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November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📆 Upcoming III seminar:

Join us on 11 November, as Louis Sirugue provides a meta-analysis of intergenerational income mobility around the world.

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November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📣 Vacancy alert:

We are seeking to recruit a Research Officer (post-doctoral researcher) for a 24-month period to conduct original research on topics related to inequality, intergenerational mobility, and inequality of opportunity.

Apply by 20 November ⬇️
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November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
📣 New III working paper:

Javier Olivera, Christian Breunig, @ts-broderstad.bsky.social, Patrick Dumont and Maj-Britt Sterba compare the “mental maps” of redistribution among politicians and citizens across seven parliaments.

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November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“The persistence of violence in Colombia is not an anomaly within an otherwise stable democracy”.

In our latest blog post, Jenny Pearce & Juan David Velasco explain why, turning the spotlight on the elites that sustain the status quo #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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November 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📄 The Inequality (or the Growth) We Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes

New paper by Facundo Alvaredo, Mauricio De Rosa, @ignacioflores.bsky.social and Marc Morgan

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October 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Our findings show that most of Colombia’s wealth, political power and social prestige – across a country with a population of 53 million – is concentrated on just 932 individuals”
– Jenny Pearce & Juan David Velasco on “elite constellations" #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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October 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📣 New vacancy:

The post-holder will help establish the new research programme on the Economics of Environmental Inequality.

They will conduct research on how climate change and policy interact with and reinforce existing social and economic disparities.

Apply by 13 November ⬇️
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October 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📣 Upcoming online event!

One of the key questions facing the chancellor ahead of her budget is whether she will seek to raise money through greater taxation of wealth.

Our expert panel will weigh in on what measures they think should be prioritised in her budget.

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October 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📝 "No one describes better and quantifies with such precision the global transformations now underway than Branko Milanovic"

Join us for the first launch event of the highly acclaimed new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social on 6 November.

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October 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
📣 Upcoming III seminar:

Laura Sochas explores how social policies such as austerity, migration policy and family policy shape reproductive inequalities and health inequalities among parents in the UK and Europe.

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October 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
📣 Vacancy alert!

@afsee-lse.bsky.social are looking for a Communications Manager to create, implement, and lead on all aspects of the AFSEE programme's communications strategy.

Apply by 4 November ⬇️
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October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
New open-access edited volume out now on @lsepress.bsky.social!

This brings together some of the world’s leading economists and policy experts at LSE to provide the guidance and principles needed to assist today's political leaders and policymakers.

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October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM