Sustainable and inclusive recovery | Seeks to ensure a post-Covid-19 economic recovery that creates a more egalitarian world, priorities the interests of the global South.

Public Economy | This project focuses on budget policy and fiscal institutions, as well as macro-fiscal choices and their consequences for social policy and distribution.

Pre-Distribution and Ownership | Seeks to investigates how the production system can be reconfigured to generate outcomes that improve equity within society.

The Gender Pay Gap | Seeks to understand the gender pay gap in South Africa. Despite advances in the post-apartheid era, women still lack access to the formal economy.

Wealth Inequality and Elites | Seeks to link elite studies and wealth distribution work to understand inequality because how wealth is distributed both reflects and reinforces who holds power in society.

Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) | It is one of the largest and most far-reaching socio-economic experiments to reduce inequality and broaden ownership and economic participation in South Africa's history.

Future of Work(ers) Research Group | The project aims to conduct cutting-edge research on the changing nature of work and its implications for inequality in the global South; promote research collaborations amongst Southern scholars; and shape national, regional and global policy agendas at the national through public engagement.

The Climate change and inequality | The project aims to generate research and evidence for climate and social policy, which supports climate justice and transformative just transition.

The Intersectionality Project | Seeks to understand, inform and promote intersectionality approaches to development research, as intersectionality is central to the study of inequality, identity and power relations.