Inequality in the Developing World de Carlos Gradín

Inequality in the Developing World: WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Editat de Carlos Gradín, Murray Leibbrandt, Finn Tarp

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 mar 2021

Descoperim aici un instrument de lucru riguros, esențial pentru orice specialist în politici publice sau economie politică. Inequality in the Developing World nu se limitează la teorii abstracte, ci pune la dispoziția cititorului 55 de figuri și 42 de tabele care servesc drept șabloane de analiză pentru înțelegerea disparităților economice. Suntem de părere că valoarea practică a volumului rezidă în cadrele metodologice folosite pentru a evalua cum politicile fiscale și sistemele de beneficii sociale pot mitiga inegalitatea în contexte de volatilitate ridicată.

Putem afirma că lucrarea reprezintă o bornă în literatura de specialitate prin modul în care corelează inegalitățile din afara pieței muncii cu dinamica salarială rapidă din ultimele decenii. Pe linia practică a volumului Dimensions of Inequality, dar cu focus pe economiile emergente de scară mare (Brazilia, China, India, Mexic și Africa de Sud), această carte oferă o perspectivă tehnică asupra modului în care concentrarea veniturilor la nivelul elitei afectează contractul social.

În contextul operei editorilor, acest volum continuă direcția analitică stabilită în Tasks, Skills, and Institutions, extinzând cercetarea de la structura competențelor individuale către macro-mecanismele redistributive ale statului. Cartea este structurată pentru a ghida cititorul prin procesul de măsurare a inegalității globale, oferind totodată evaluări detaliate ale strategiilor de combatere a excluziunii sociale, devenind astfel o resursă fundamentală pentru implementarea obiectivelor Agendei ONU 2030.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198863960
ISBN-10: 0198863969
Pagini: 374
Ilustrații: 55 Figures, 42 Tables
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă economiștilor și experților în dezvoltare care au nevoie de date concrete și modele comparative între marile economii emergente. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a mecanismelor fiscale care funcționează (sau eșuează) în reducerea inegalității. Este un ghid metodologic bazat pe cifre, care transformă dezbaterea despre echitate socială într-o strategie de politici publice aplicabilă.

Despre autor

Editorii volumului, Carlos Gradín, Murray Leibbrandt și Finn Tarp, sunt cercetători de prestigiu în cadrul UNU-WIDER și instituții academice de top, specializați în economia dezvoltării. Finn Tarp, fost director al UNU-WIDER, este recunoscut pentru expertiza sa în analiza ajutorului extern și a creșterii economice. Împreună, aceștia coordonează proiecte internaționale care vizează reducerea sărăciei, contribuind prin acest volum la seria WIDER Studies in Development Economics de la OUP OXFORD, consolidându-și poziția de lideri în cercetarea inegalității globale.

Descriere

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. 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.

Recenzii

By bringing together this superb group of authors and deploying their considerable talents to key questions about how and why inequality is changing in some of the world's largest countries — as well as globally — the editors of this volume have done us a tremendous service. In my endorsement of the book, I called it a "must-read" volume and I stand by that assessment. I particularly enjoyed the combination of the three "big-picture" chapters at the outset with the five detailed country studies that follow.

Notă biografică

Carlos Gradín is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Vigo. His main research interest is the study of poverty, inequality, and discrimination in both developed and developing countries, especially inequalities between population groups. His research deals with enhancing the empirical evidence as well as methodological tools for the measurement and understanding of those issues. His research has been widely published in several international journals.Murray Leibbrandt holds the National Research Foundation Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. He is the Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit and the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research within the African Research Universities Alliance. He is on the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association and is a Senior Research Fellow of UNU-WIDER. From 2007 to 2019 he was a Principal Investigator on the National Income Dynamics Study, South Africa's national longitudinal study. He has published widely in development economics using survey data and especially panel data to analyse South African poverty, inequality, and labour market dynamics.Finn Tarp is a Professor at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and Coordinator of the UCPH Development Economics Research Group (DERG). Director of UNU-WIDER from 2009 to 2018, and now a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of UNU-WIDER, Professor Tarp is a leading international expert on development strategy and foreign aid, with an interest in poverty, income distribution, and growth, micro- and macroeconomic policy and modelling, agricultural sector policy and planning, household/enterprise development, and economic adjustment and reform as well as climate change, sustainability, and natural resources. He has published widely in leading economics and development journals and books by international academic publishers.