Our societies have seen epidemics and outbreaks from which we have, or we should have, learned. What are those lessons? What does research tell us about the social dynamics of the pandemic and of our responses to it? We discuss these questions with researchers in this specific field – IDS’ Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor, Annie Wilkinson and Ian Scoones.
This article, authored by Guy Standing, discusses basic income systems as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly to address the gender-based inequality highlighted in the crisis.
Our responses to COVID-19 should be informed by all sciences. Jay Van Bavel and Robb Willer present the importance of social and behavioural sciences in helping policy-makers, leaders, and the public better understand and respond to the pandemic.
This article published in the World Social Science Report 2016 discusses inequalities in access to water and their intescting nature with issues of gender and socio-economic ineualities, and how such challanges are exacerbated by climate change.
In this interview with the Inclusive Policy Lab, Marcelo Medeiros discusses inequality in Brazil, and reforms in taxation and other sectors to tackle the same.
Holder of the South African Research Chair in Social Policy at the University of South Africa, Professor Jimi O. Adesina discusses the dimensions of inequality and social policy solutions in sub-Saharan Africa in this interview with the Inclusive Policy Lab.