Center for the Study of Inequality
www.inequality.com Description: The Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) fosters basic and applied research on social, economic, and cultural inequalities and the processes by which such inequalities change and persist. It aims at developing formal models of the sources and causes of inequality, with the idea of moving beyond the conventional applied policy research that has dominated the field for decades. Its emphasizes on developing theory-based and empirically-tested models of inequality that should ultimately assist not only in understanding ongoing changes in inequality but also in evaluating public policy and social interventions. This Agenda is pursued by CSI affiliates through studies of diverse topics on Inequality and with a wide range of activities including: hosting symposia and lecture series, graduate and undergraduate training, research support, awarding breakthrough scholarship, disseminating research findings.[Back to top] Center for the Study of Social Exclusion and Social Justice at University of Bristol
www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/SPS/swelcome.htm Description: The Center for the Study of Social Exclusion and Social Justice is one of four specialist research centers in the University of Bristol's School for Policy Studies. Its stated aim is to promote a supportive arena for critical national and international analysis and research into monitoring the nature and extent of poverty, inequality and social exclusion and injustice; studying the processes and structures which support social exclusion and injustice;
informing, supporting, and promoting responses which encourage participation and social justice; developing collaboration, participatory and action based techniques and strategies in research, policy development and community action.
[Back to top] Inequality Around the World
www.worldbank.org/research/transition/index.htm Source: The World Bank
Region: Europe and Central Asia
Description: Unprecedented declines in real incomes and increases in inequality in economies undergoing transition from Communism to market, have pushed many people into poverty. This web site focuses on:
Inequality: causes of increased inequality, and why did it increase much more in some countries.
Poverty: types of poverty (transitory or not) and characteristics which make people more likely to become, and to stay, poor.
Social policy: how it functions and what improvements can be introduced to better target social assistance, and to make social insurance systems (e.g. pensions) sustainable. [Back to top] Inequality.org
www.inequality.org Description: Inequality.org is a network of journalists, researchers and writers working in the capacity of non-for -profit support group to research, collate and circulate information and ideas on poverty and inequality. It does not advocate for any particular policy or set of policies, but seeks to stimulate discussion on inequality beyond the bounds of conventional economic analysis. Information gathered and refined usually in the form of comments, articles, books and original thinking about the shape of wealth distribution across the world are stored on the web site of the Inequality.org or published by its numerous publishers. These publications reflects implications of inequality in such areas like Health, Work life, the Coherence of communities, and the Working of domestic governments.
[Back to top] Institute for Research on Poverty: Poverty-related Resources
www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/ Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Description: Poverty-related resources for researchers.[Back to top] Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University
www.yale.edu/isps Region: North America
Country: United States
Description: The Center for the Study of Race, Inequality, and Politics, a research program housed within the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, strives to facilitate interdisciplinary inquiry in the perceived, structural inequalities in the American society. It offers both faculty and graduate student seminars; an annual public lecture; and a research and policy studies program, emphasizing graduate training and support. Faculty associated with the center encourage a comprehensive approach to the study of race, inequality, and politics, centering on dialogue, scholarship, the development of innovative policy initiatives, and attention to organizing activities. The center is dedicated to producing research on racial inequality, especially as it interacts with other systems of oppression, such as patriarchy, heterosexism, and class exploitation.[Back to top] Inter-American Development Bank: Social Development and Poverty
www.iadb.org/topics/Home.cfm?topicID=DS&parid=2&language=English Source: Inter-American Development Bank
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Description: Latin-American poverty-related links.[Back to top] John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: Program on Human and Community Development
www.macfdn.org/ Description: Related Sites:Network on Economic Inequality and Social Interactions The network focuses efforts on three areas: (1) identifying and measuring the effects of social interactions on inequality, (2) developing models of social interactions and government policies that affect inequality and income distribution, and (3) studying inequality using computational simulations. Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance This network focuses its research on the relationship between inequality and the economic success of nations, firms, and local communities. The network examines questions of (a) the relation between inequalities of assets or economic rewards and economic performance, and (b) if inequalities impede economic performance, how might these inequalities and failures be rectified without introducing new sources of inefficiency.Network on Inequality and Poverty in the Broader Perspective: Theory, Application, and Policy This multi-disciplinary network undertakes basic conceptual research on various dimensions of welfare, standard approaches to income inequality and poverty, and empirical research using econometric analysis of health, education, and income data from three countries--the U.S., South Africa, and India. [Back to top] Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy of Harvard University
www.ksg.harvard.edu/inequality/ Description: The Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy is a special graduate training program jointly offered by over 30 Harvard faculty. The program’s principally objective is to strengthen, enrich, and support the work of Harvard Ph.D. candidates already enrolled in a Harvard doctoral program in the field of economics, political science, public policy, sociology, or in one of Harvard's related joint Ph.D. programs who seek further interdisciplinary study in this realm. The aim, therefore, is to produce scholars who will be grounded in the recognized disciplines of their home departments but who also understand the models, methods, and findings of scholars in adjacent fields. The units research emphasis is focused on inequality and social policy as broadly defined to encompass both the causes and consequences of inequality and the policies designed to address them.[Back to top] Poverty Mapping
www.povertymap.net/ Description: The project "Improving Methods for Poverty and Food Insecurity Mapping and its Use at Country Level" pools know-how, data and technical skills of the three international organizations -FAO, CGIAR and UNEP/GRID- plus various other international expert institutions to provide the public with poverty maps from the global to the subnational level.
[Back to top] Pro-Poor Infotech Center
www.propoor.org/index.asp Description: ProPoor is a non-profit organization with registered branches in India, Singapore and USA and is committed to the democratic dissemination of information and sustainable development initiatives to respond to the needs of under represented and marginalized sectors of society in the South Asia. It has developed an Internet portal containing comprehensive information on South Asian Non Governmental / Voluntary Organizations, Donors and Funding Agencies, Events, Projects, Jobs and Resumes related to social development; Appeals and Success Stories of individuals as well as organizations and other relevant Links. The various categories of information include a directory of organizations working in the areas of poverty eradication, child labor, gender equality, networking, socio-economic development, health, human rights, rural development, education, democracy and other initiatives related to social development. There are sections hosting detailed development news (updated daily), project reports, discussions, appeals as well as success stories. The site also provides the links to donor agencies and other similar websites. The portal also provides a free website to NGOs / VOs. Its World Wide Web designed to serve as a viable media vehicle and interaction.
[Back to top] The Center on Population, Gender and Social Inequality at Maryland University
www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/popcenter.html Description: The Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality is a population training and research center located in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. It intends to support interdisciplinary research that expands knowledge of the determinants and consequences of demographic structure and change with a special focus on the interrelationships among population, gender, and social inequality. The regional focus of its research is both the United States and developing regions of the world, particularly Asia. [Back to top] The Institute for Fiscal Studies: Inequality and Living Standards
www.ifs.org.uk/inequalityindex.shtml#top Description: Inequality and Living Standards is an independent research organization with a more varied specialist research unit on all aspects of taxation and public spending, and is concerned with practical policy particularly in the United Kingdom. The IFS hosts the Center for Economic Evaluation that aims to improve the capacity for exchange of research-based evidence between public policy researchers and practitioners and to contribute to the improvement of quality of research, policy development and practice. The Center expects to contribute to this overall aim by focusing on the several research projects in collaboration with the other nodes of the Network, including an investigation of the determinants of income inequalities and the relationship to health inequalities[Back to top] United for Fair Economy
www.ufenet.org Description: UFE is a “movement support” organization that seeks to provide media capacity, face-to-face economic literacy education, and training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address the widening income and asset gap in the United States. It is dedicated to fighting growing inequality, by building a powerful fair economy countervailing force/movement that can contest the dominant economic policies and propose policies that ensure shared prosperity. Key elements of this movement include a revitalized labor movement and a stronger voice from religious communities and coalitions of civic organizations. Support for such a movement is done through education, campaigns that build power to change policy, and creative tactics that infuse the economic justice movement with vision, humor, and hope. UFE conducts research on Issues of economic injustice, income disparity, the racial underpinnings of the gap between rich and poor in America and reaches the public through talk radio print media, and television. [Back to top] University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP)
utip.gov.utexas.edu/ Source: University of Texas
Description: The University of Texas Inequality Project is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial changes around the world.[Back to top] World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm Source: United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER)
Description: The UNU/WIDER - UNDP World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries in an easily retrievable, exportable, and analyzable format. It is available on the internet for browsing and download in order to facilitate further analysis and debate on inequality.
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