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Bina Agarwal honored with inaugural Global Inequality Research Award
Agarwal was honored for her pioneering research on gender and environmental inequalities, advancing global understanding of multidimensional disparities.
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Bhavana P - Fri, 11, Apr 2025
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Bina Agarwal along with James K. Boyce / Global Development Institute
Bina Agarwal, professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute (GDI), University of Manchester has received the inaugural Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA).
Presented by the Paris School of Economics, a research institute based in France and Sciences Po’s Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), a broad-based, comparative research center in sociology, the biennial award recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions to the understanding of global inequalities.
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Agarwal shares the 2024 honor with economist James K. Boyce for their pioneering work on social and environmental disparities.
“I am delighted to receive this prize, although it was also a complete surprise to me, given how much good scholarship there is now on multidimensional inequality, and I am but one scholar among many,” Agarwal said.
“Of course, many of us who research on diverse dimensions of inequality want those inequalities to decline and disappear. In my own work, I therefore not only seek to recognise and measure inequalities, especially by gender, but also suggest ways of reducing them,” she added.
Agarwal recently delivered a lecture titled “Hidden inequalities, visible outcomes. A Gender Lens,” as part of the World Inequality Lab’s Equality Debates series. She is renowned for her extensive research on gender inequality, environmental governance, and feminist economics. Her influential books include A Field of One’s Own (1994), Gender and Green Governance (2010), and the three-volume Gender Challenges (2016).
Thomas Piketty, professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and a leading authority on inequality, presented the award which is a symbolic replica of the earliest known Mesopotamian School Tablet, currently housed in the Louvre.
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