The Wire Staff 
New Delhi: Indian economist Bina Agarwal has received the first Global Inequality Research Award for her “groundbreaking work in the field of social and environmental inequalities”.
The award recognises researchers from all disciplines who have made a significant contribution to the understanding of global inequalities.
In a ceremony held on March 19 the Paris School of Economics (PSE), Bina received the award from French economist and professor Thomas Piketty on behalf of PSE’s World Inequality Lab and Sciences Po, France.
The gift was a Louvre replica of the first school tablets found in Šuš, Mesopotamia. The ceremony was followed by Agarwal’s lecture on “Hidden Inequalities, Visible Outcomes: A Gender Lens”.
Agarwal, a Padma Shri awardee and author of an award-winning book, A Field of One’s Own, is a professor of Development Economics and Environment at the GDI, the University of Manchester and former professor and director, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.