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We seek to understand our world and directly change it for the better. Read about some of the ways we're addressing inequalities and improving lives.

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  • ‘Rising powers’ and global production standards

    Rising powers and global production standards

  • Inequality and the sustainable development goals

    Inequality and the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Professor Armando Barrientos

    Childhood urban inequalities in Latin America

  • Dr Fortunate Machingura

    Leaving no one behind by 2030

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    Manchester Migration Lab

  • Cocoa beans

    Gender equality in the cocoa-chocolate value chain

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    Bringing human rights and business closer together

  • crowd walking across a street

    The see-saw effects of inequality

  • Man in a subway

    How can we reduce poverty in Greater Manchester?

  • World map

    Addressing global inequalities for 200 years

  • People walking in the street

    The first Human Development Report for Greater Manchester

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    How perforated industrial relations worsen inequalities in the UK

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    Retirement marks a widening stress gap

  • Woman and baby

    What history can teach us about humanitarianism

  • The shifting geography of global inequality

    The shifting geography of global inequality

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    Taking on Inequalities event

  • Making states more effective and development inclusive

    Making states more effective and development inclusive

  • The role of climate change in inequality

    The role of climate change in inequality

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    Advancing women’s rights in an unequal world

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    Is the living wage the answer to the UK productivity puzzle?

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    The see-saw effects of inequality

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    The UK-Med response to Ebola in Sierra Leone

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    Retirement doesn't mean the end of work

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    Minding the pay gap

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