Inequality in the Developing World Hardback
Edited by Carlos (Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER) Gradin, Murray (SARChI Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research, SALDRU, University of Leibbrandt, Finn (Professor of Development Economics, University of Copenhagen; and Non-Resident Senior Re Tarp
Part of the WIDER Studies in Development Economics series
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Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge.
It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty.
For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all multilateral agencies.
It is at the core of the 17 goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This book contributes to this important discussion by presenting assessments of the measurement and analysis of global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the world's largest developing countries--Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa.
Each is a persistently high or newly high inequality context and, with the changing global inequality situation as context, country chapters investigate the main factors shaping their different inequality dynamics.
Particular attention is paid to how broader societal inequalities arising outside of the labour market have intersected with the rapidly changing labour market milieus of the last few decades.
Collectively, these chapters provide a nuanced discussion of key distributive phenomena such as the high concentration of income among the most affluent people, gender inequalities, and social mobility.
Substantive tax and social benefit policies that each country implemented to mitigate these inequality dynamics are assessed in detail.
The book takes lessons from these contexts back into the global analysis of inequality and social mobility and the policies needed to address inequality.
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- Pages:384 pages, 55 Figures, 42 Tables
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- Publication Date:11/03/2021
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- ISBN:9780198863960
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, 55 Figures, 42 Tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:11/03/2021
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- ISBN:9780198863960