- First “Global Inequality Research Award” presented to Bina Agarwal and James Boyce.
- The World Inequality Lab (WIL) has joined hands with Sciences Po’s Center for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) to award the first edition of the Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA).
- The purpose of the award is to honor researchers from all disciplines who have made significant contributions to the understanding of global inequalities.
- The Global Inequality Research Prize will be awarded every two years.
- Economist Bina Agrawal (University of Manchester), is the author of leading work on gender inequalities, environmental governance, ecofeminism, and environmental inequalities.
- Economist James K. Boyce (University of Massachusetts Amherst), is the author of a seminal work on the relationship between social inequality and environmental degradation.
- He has made a major contribution to the structure of the field of environmental political economy.
GiRA wants to acknowledge leading scholarship in the area of global inequality understood from two major perspectives
- First, the perspective of inequality research is being conducted in all corners of the world.
- Second, the perspective of inequality is a complex phenomenon that requires light from all angles to be fully understood and ultimately mitigated.