GDI academic awarded Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA)
On March 19 2025, Bina Agarwal became co-recipient of the first Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA), given by the Paris School of Economics and the Sciences Po鈥檚 Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS).
The biennial is intended to recognise researchers from all disciplines who have 鈥榤ade a significant contribution to the understanding of global inequalities.鈥� The 2024 GiRA Prize was jointly awarded to and James K. Boyce for their work in the fields of social and environmental inequalities.
Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at GDI, and her prolific career has produced major work on gender inequalities, environmental governance, feminist environmentalism and environmental inequalities. Among her notable books are the award-winning 鈥� (CUP 1994); (OUP, 2010); and (OUP, 2016), a three-volume compendium of her selected papers.
At a ceremony held in Paris, Bina gave a lecture: 鈥楬idden inequalities, visible outcomes. A Gender Lens鈥�, which is available to . The lecture was part of the series organized by the World Inequality Lab.
Speaking to us in 2024, Bina said:
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.
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.
The award was presented by Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics, and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.
Bina was presented with a replica of the earliest Mesopotamian School Tablet, housed in the Louvre, pictured here.
To read more about Bina鈥檚 recent research, please see her .