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ACEIR is one of four partners in a multi-year, multi-country African Inequality Review to document inequality more accurately and comparatively and support policy decisions to reduce inequality in an era of less resources and rising risk.

In this article, Chandré Jacobs reflects on how the July 2021 unrest and increasing community protests in South Africa influenced her PhD research on inequality and conflict.

Two new resources for researchers who want to undertake country diagnostics that span both socioeconomic and climate change inequalities have been developed by members of the ACEIR team. These are now available online.

Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Murray Leibbrandt from the School of Economics for being selected as an International Economic Association Fellow in recognition of his outstanding scholarly contributions.

Do government taxes and social spending (e.g., social grants, housing, education and health services) impact income inequality and poverty? Our seminar series in the first half of 2026 presents insights for Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa.

ACEIR researchers at the University of Nairobi are part of a large team of contributors to an insightful new report that assesses how taxation and public spending affect poverty, inequality, and welfare in Kenya.

SALDRU hosted a lunch to mark Murray Leibbrandt’s formal retirement from UCT. This article by Charmaine Smith draws together the multitude of tributes Murray has received.

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.