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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.

An ACEIR team presented findings from a new inequality diagnostic report to key government, business, trade union and civil society stakeholders at a consultative workshop co-hosted with the International Labour Organization in Windhoek.

The contributions to poverty and inequality scholarship by ACEIR’s director, Prof. Murray Leibbrandt, were recognised in two significant ways this year: an honorary PhD, and election to the Council of South Africa's science academy.

The first seminar of the CoRE IPD will present a study on whether psychosocial training increased female smallholder adoption of improved seeds in Ethiopia. A hybrid event with the Cluster's co-lead Prof. Robert Lensink, 4 Oct. @ 13:00 CAT.

If its inaugural summer school is anything to go by, the Cluster of Research Excellence in Inequalities, Poverty, and Deprivation is off to an excellent start in nurturing African research excellence through education and capacity building.

The ACEIR partner universities celebrated with the University of Groningen and other European partners in the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Inequalities, Poverty, and Deprivation at the consortium's official launch.

An ambitious collaborative and interdisciplinary PhD Programme in Sustainable Development Studies will be started in 2026 by ACEIR and significant partner institutions under the umbrella of a new ARUA initiative to boost doctoral training.