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Daniel H. Alves is an early-career political economist with teaching and research appointments at King's College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He convenes the Comparative Social Policy module in the Department of Political Economy and leads seminars as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Research Methods module of the Department of War Studies. Alves supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in Political Economy and serves as a Guest Lecturer at the King's Brazil Institute. He is also a Project Coordinator for the Latin America Caribbean Inequality Review at the LSE International Inequalities Institute. Alves's research contributes to interdisciplinary debates in the fields of comparative international political economy, politics, and development public policy, focusing particularly on how political variables shape economic inequality outcomes and what equity-enhancing reforms succeed or fail. Additionally, he collaborates with other researchers on projects that examine distributional conflicts that affect democratic stability and economic growth strategies in the Global South and the developed world. His work has been published in renowned, peer-reviewed journals such as Politics & Policy and the Latin American Research Review, as well as shorter commentaries on platforms like the LSE Inequalities Blog.
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