This short course has equipped the ACEIR country nodes and research teams from other countries to undertake country-level inequality analyses. The course draws on the Handbook on Inequality Measurement for Country Studies that was developed as a reference document to assist the conceptualisation of a country-level inequality diagnostic. This resource provides a framework for doing inequality diagnostics in a similar way, such as using common methods, common indicators, and dealing with issues of data availability, what data needs to be included, and what sorts of analyses are required.

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Aerial photo of a golf course adjacent to an informal settlement, Durban, South Africa

African inequality diagnostics

The inequality diagnostics serve as a baseline on inequality trends in each country and are used to explore the implications of the data analyses with different sectoral stakeholders.
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Photo of "transport" canoes being loaded and street vendors in Mopti, Central Mali, Africa

Inequality diagnostics training for Mali team

With a small team of French-speaking researchers embarking on an inequality diagnostic for Mali, a training workshop was hosted recently to orient them in the use of a key tool that guides the production of our inequality country reports.
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