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The “Economic Policy, Growth, and Distribution” research area covers fundamental economic development and social justice themes. It examines aspects of governmental actions and monetary authority in the use of resources and economic policy instruments.
Decisions regarding the size and allocation of public spending, government investments, and taxation, for example, impact income distribution and co-determine possible patterns of national development. Similarly, choices in monetary policy affect the labor market, inflation, exchange rates, and income and employment inequalities. Therefore, this research area seeks to understand the various dimensions of the relationship between economic policy and inequalities to enable constructive intervention in public debate, promoting more inclusive and egalitarian growth and development trajectories.
The research area “Decarbonization, Development, and Just Transition” focuses on the economic dimension of climate change, emphasizing the relationships between growth, decarbonization, and inequalities.
It aims to reflect on the possibilities, limits, and contradictions of a global agenda that proposes reducing emissions, increasing income, and distributing it more equitably. One of the goals of this research area is to promote a critical understanding of the decarbonization process, providing insights for formulating policies committed not only to addressing the climate crisis but also to its economic and social determinants and impacts. Relevant topics within this research area include financing alternatives for the transition, the economic and social costs of this process, and the different perspectives that shape this context in developed and developing countries, both domestically and internationally.
The research area “Feminist Economics” reflects on the economic, social, political, and cultural structures and processes that reproduce or combat intersecting inequalities, expressed, for instance, in social relations of gender, race, and class.
Drawing from the concepts and contributions of feminist theory, it questions traditional understandings of economics to examine the origins of inequalities embedded in productive and reproductive relations. Our work highlights the invisibility and disregard, by conventional metrics, of unpaid care work and the undervaluation and precariousness of paid care work. From a public policy perspective, this research investigates the state’s responsibility and the redistributive role of policies, emphasizing the impact that the socialization of costs and the universalization of benefits from ensuring social reproduction have on combating gender and racial inequalities.