About us
The Global Inequality Project was created to make research and data on imperialism and global inequality accessible to a broader audience. The project was developed by Jason Hickel, Huzaifa Zoomkawala, Federico Cruz, Ivan Mendoza, Dylan Sullivan, Morena Hanbury Lemos, JP Arellano and Felix Barbour, from countries including Pakistan, Mexico, Guatemala, Australia, Brazil and Britain.
Our work builds on generations of scholarship in this field, particularly from the global South, by thinkers including Walter Rodney, Samir Amin, Immanuel Wallerstein, Eduardo Galeano, Utsa Patnaik, Angela Davis, Ali Kadri and many others who have mapped the structures of imperialism, unequal exchange, and the racial and patriarchal dimensions of the capitalist world economy.
While most entries focus on the results of new papers from our research community on political economy and political ecology, some present data drawn directly from existing sources, such as the United Nations, the World Inequality Database and the World Bank. Please note that this website is a work in progress. New content is being developed and will be added in the coming months and years. If you wish to receive periodic updates on new content as it is published, please subscribe here.
This project has also benefited from input from Andrew Fanning, Joël Foramitti, Aaron Kimmig and Leon Beccard, as well as from many other colleagues and co-authors who led or contributed to the research that is presented on this website.