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J-PAL researchers joined us for the 2025 ARUA international conference, with Sarah Kopper conducting a workshop on evaluating AI interventions, and Sam Carter delivering a keynote on the potential of AI to reduce poverty and inequality.

ACEIR Ghana's Nkechi S. Owoo is the first female full professor of economics to be capped at the University of Ghana. This also means she is only the third female in the country to be promoted to the highest academic grade in economics.

We're hosting a series of seminars on African inequalities until yearend. The seminars draw on chapters from a publication by the World Bank and AFD that represents a stock-take of ACEIR's research with the AFD. Recordings are now online.

Back from a fellowship at UNU-WIDER – the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research – in Finland, PhD candidate Chandré Jacobs reflects on participating in this research capacity building opportunity.

The 2025 summer school of the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Inequalities, Poverty, and Deprivation was held at ACEIR's Ghana node, University of Ghana. Our team contributed to the school alongside European counterparts.

SALDRU researchers in the South Africa node of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) have developed a new course on the analysis of panel surveys.

ACEIR researchers and associates showcased studies on Africa's future working-age population, Ghana's education expansion, South Africa's decreasing schooling inequality, and access to paid leave in South Africa.

The ARUA Early-Career Research Fellowship programme is inviting applications from emerging researchers to conduct globally competitive research at the host and affiliated institutions of ARUA’s 13 centres of excellence, including ACEIR.

A day before SALDRU’s South Africa at 30 Years of Democracy opened, a policy dialogue on the intricate relationship between inequality, poverty, and economic growth policies served as a prelude to the conference that followed.

Researchers from our South Africa node are contributors to an exciting and innovative new book that focuses on the huge wealth divides between racial groups and how these can be challenged. A project led by the London School of Economics.

The PoWER project examines how politician characteristics influence wealth reproduction through policy making. While the research and analyses are still in nascent stages, some interesting emergent results were presented at the workshop.

A new book in the African Development Forum series of the World Bank and French Development Agency calls for progressive policies that can reduce inequalities in Africa to speed up poverty reduction and economic growth on the continent.