Inequality in the Developing World

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 an...

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description 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 seventeen 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 on 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 like 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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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-682222025-03-12T18:15:25Z Inequality in the Developing World Gradín, Carlos Leibbrandt, Murray Tarp, Finn inequality, economic growth, redistribution, poverty measurement, Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics 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 seventeen 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 on 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 like 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. 2021-04-29T02:02:53Z 2021-04-29T02:02:53Z 2021-04-28T10:10:23Z 2021 book OCN: 1247122712 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48448 9780198863960 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68222 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48448/1/9780198863960.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48448/1/9780198863960.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48448/1/9780198863960.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48448/1/9780198863960.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 UNU WIDER c9be6ad3-6692-452d-a1f3-a3e6c74f0fe2 9780198863960 384 Oxford open access
spellingShingle inequality, economic growth, redistribution, poverty measurement, Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics
Inequality in the Developing World
title Inequality in the Developing World
title_full Inequality in the Developing World
title_fullStr Inequality in the Developing World
title_full_unstemmed Inequality in the Developing World
title_short Inequality in the Developing World
title_sort inequality in the developing world
topic inequality, economic growth, redistribution, poverty measurement, Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics
topic_facet inequality, economic growth, redistribution, poverty measurement, Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics
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