Imraan is Professor of Economics; Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability, and Inequality; and Director of the Southern Centre for Inequal Studies (SCIS)
Johannesburg
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS
SCIS, Wits & Princeton invite abstracts for a joint symposium on climate transitions, industrialisation & development in the Global South.
📍 Johannesburg | 1–2 Apr 2027
📩 lindiwe.mdlalose@wits.ac.za
Download the document: bit.ly/4datAOz
Global justice report offers bold ideas but misses the realities of 2 billion informal workers – economists theconversation.com/global-j… via @TC_Africa
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🔔WATCH LIVE: Wits University is proud to host a historic gathering today.
Governments and experts are meeting in Johannesburg to begin establishing the International Panel on Inequality, a body inspired by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that will, for the first time, provide a central global assessment of inequality worldwide.
📍 Livestream Here: youtube.com/watch?v=khd6Jvd4…
#WitsForGood #InequalityPanel
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🔔WATCH LIVE: President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the high-level gathering at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, on establishing the International Panel on Inequality:
“Poverty is passed on from one generation to another in households. It results in one's starting point in life being a handicap, inferior schooling, inadequate nutrition and the lack of networks that make upward mobility difficult or impossible. This prevents humanity’s progress.”
Livestream: ow.ly/QX3x50YOVKe
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#WitsForGood #InequalityPanel
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Inequality is not just a social issue, it’s a threat to democracy, growth, and human progress.
Said President Cyril Ramaphosa in his address, calling for global action through the International Panel on Inequality.
We cannot act alone. The time to act together is now.
#InequalityEmergency #G20 #GlobalJustice #SICWITS #WITSForGood
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In his opening address Professor Zeblon Zenzele Vilakazi @WitsUniversity VC said "hosting global leaders at the University of the Witwatersrand to advance the International Panel on Inequality.
From Johannesburg, a city that reflects both innovation and deep inequality,we’re shaping solutions that connect research, technology, and policy to build a more just future".
#SCIS #WITSForGood #GlobalInequality
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President Cyril Ramaphosa and global experts gathered at Wits University today to take a historic step, beginning the establishment of the International Panel on Inequality.
President Ramaphosa, who commissioned the first-ever G20 report on global inequality, delivered the keynote address on the global inequality emergency. The report, authored by an Extraordinary Committee of Experts chaired by Nobel Economics Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz, recommended establishing a panel modelled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Representatives of the panel's founding governments; Brazil, Norway, South Africa, and Spain joined the committee in Johannesburg to discuss the urgent need for the panel and progress towards its founding.
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International Panel on Inequality : "Every country has scope to address inequality at the national level and it is in every country's strategic interest to cooperate internationally."
These are the words of Prof. Imraan Valodia, Professor of Economics and Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality at Wits University, as the Founding Committee of the International Panel on Inequality meets today at Wits to discuss the composition and mandate of the panel.
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#WitsForGood #InequalityPanel
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We asked Prof. Imraan Valodia: What is ACACIA? What does it stand for, and why does it matter for the climate–care nexus?
🎥 Watch what he had to say—and be part of the conversation.
@iValodia @WitsUniversity
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#globalinequality | Wax and Golden Dialogue
Jayati Ghosh, agree with the public: change won’t come from capitalism as we know it alone.
We need to rein in the forces driving inequality. Small, cumulative reforms can add up shaping a system that protects dignity in working life.
The reality is clear: growing fragility in people’s lives is tied to rising inequality and concentrated wealth.
Read the report > bit.ly/3QqUc5x
#Inequality #EconomicJustice #HumanRights
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#globalinequality | Wax and Golden Dialogue
During this conversation Pro Imraan Valodia said "Inequality is an emergency. We need something like an independent, global panel, similar in ambition to the IPCC, to confront it. This hasn’t really been done before, but the potential impact is huge.
Across engagements, there’s a clear message: people want an independent, credible body to drive evidence, accountability, and action on inequality.
Read the report > bit.ly/3QqUc5x
#Inequality #GlobalJustice #EconomicJustice
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📺Special lecture via Zoom
📚Topic: Global inequality in 21st century
🗓️Date: 5 May
⏰Time: 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM UTC
👨🏫Lecturer: @iValodia from @WitsUniversity
✍️Sign-up: forms.gle/BB3VE1nPGyjZqMDG8
I’m excited to be part of this important moment.
As global inequality rises, I’ll be joining President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Winnie Byanyima, Jayati Ghosh, Wanga Zembe-Mkabile & Adriana Abdenur to discuss the International Panel on Inequality.
ALT Join us online: https://bit.ly/4mMrY1i
This conversation matters to me because the evidence is clear: we are facing an inequality emergency.
As part of the G20 committee behind the global inequality report, I’ve seen how deeply inequality is shaped by policy choices not inevitability.
Join us:bit.ly/4mHj05v
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Inequality and pandemics are feeding each other—and killing people. We know how to stop this vicious cycle. Now, we must do it. If we fail, the next crisis will not only take more lives, it will deepen the divides that already threaten our shared humanity.
Sharing my interview with @NationAfrica
#G20SouthAfrica #EndInequalities
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Thrilled that leading economists across the world endorsing G20 inequality report chaired by @JosephEStiglitz
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"Inequality affects every aspect of our society – health, education, access to justice. The International Panel on Inequality will help us understand the drivers of inequality, the consequences, and the policies that could help address it. It is a proposal that provides some hope that we can do something about this."
Thank you @JosephEStiglitz, for your clarity and guidance as chair of the #G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality.
#EndInequalities
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This is the first-ever #G20 report on inequality — and our key recommendation is the creation of an International Panel on Inequality, modelled on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Inequality is a global challenge. Between 2000 and 2024, the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth, while the bottom half of humanity received just 1%.
Vaccine apartheid during the COVID-19 pandemic denied millions in the Global South the vaccines that could save them.
These are examples of an inequality emergency which requires a global mechanism, like the IPCC, to #FightInequality.
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Inequality is not just wrong, it's dangerous.
But inequality is a choice.
By acting now to address it, we can make the world safer from disease.
Sharing my new op-ed with @iValodia & @MMKavanagh
#EndInequalities #GlobalHealth
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Very honoured to have been part of this important report for @CyrilRamaphosa
Download here :
bit.ly/4oNOGWw
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The decision by South African President @CyrilRamaphosa to place inequality at the heart of the G20 agenda is historic. It marks a significant step forward on the long road toward greater equality. It is no coincidence that countries from the Global South—Brazil and South Africa—have led the charge to put tax justice and social justice on the G20 agenda in recent years.
The World Inequality Lab wecomes @JosephEStiglitz's report and back its call for a global panel on inequality, modelled after the IPCC. It’s time to scale up the work we’ve championed for over 10 years to measure and address the drivers of inequality.
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