Policy discussions on solutions to inequality tend to focus on ex-post redistributive measures – for example tax policies – or on policies that create new opportunities – for example, through investments in education.  These solutions are often preferable because they don’t interfere with market outcomes and don’t challenge distributions of wealth and power. Consequently, very little analysis has been done of how the production system itself and the associated financial architecture in developing countries is generating increasing levels of inequality and how policies may be designed, within production and finance itself, to achieve more equitable outcomes. As such, the pre-distribution and ownership project aims to investigate how the production system itself can be reconfigured to generate outcomes that improves equity within society, prior to fiscal transfers to support vulnerable households and communities.