Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Inequalities are one of today’s greatest challenges, obstructing poverty reduction and sustainable development. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seeks to overcome inequalities, containing two standalone goals—SDGs 5 and 10—and, moreover, an overarching commitment to leaving no one behind. In considering how to reduce inequalities, the time has come to adjust our focus to include not just the bottom of the pyramid, but also the top: elite power and all its ramifications, as well as the sources of these power imbalances, the fractures they have wrought, and the drivers of policy change to level out social stratification and devolve power and resources from elites to non-elites.

"Overcoming Inequalities in a Fractured World: Between Elite Power and Social Mobilization" is a research line within UNRISD programme Social Policy and Development.

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