Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants de Vegard Iversen

Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants: WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Editat de Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, Kunal Sen

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 dec 2021

Imaginați-vă un context de dezvoltare în care registrele fiscale sau datele de recensământ pe termen lung pur și simplu nu există. Cum putem măsura șansele unui copil născut în sărăcie de a-și depăși condiția fără aceste instrumente statistice de bază? Descoperim aici că Social Mobility in Developing Countries nu este doar o analiză teoretică, ci un manual de supraviețuire metodologică pentru economiști și sociologi. Remarcăm o abordare autoritară și pragmatică: autorii nu se mulțumesc să deplângă inegalitatea, ci structurează soluții pentru identificarea inhibitorilor mobilității acolo unde datele sunt fragmentate.

Putem afirma că acest volum, parte din prestigioasa serie WIDER Studies in Development Economics, umple un gol critic în literatura de specialitate. Spre deosebire de analizele clasice care se concentrează pe Occident, unde mobilitatea pare să fi stagnat, editorii Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna și Kunal Sen își îndreaptă atenția către „Sudul Global”. Pe linia practică a lucrării Inequality in the Developing World, dar cu un focus specific pe mecanismele de ascensiune și regresie socială, acest titlu oferă rigoarea necesară pentru a transforma „mantra” mobilității în politici publice aplicabile.

Structura celor 506 pagini este susținută de 40 de tabele și 32 de figuri, facilitând înțelegerea unor concepte complexe precum „stickiness” (aderența) inegalității între generații. Lectura ne oferă o perspectivă interdisciplinară, eliminând izolarea cercetătorilor din diferite domenii și propunând un cadru unitar pentru a înțelege cum educația, piața muncii și structurile politice pot facilita sau, dimpotrivă, bloca progresul individual.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192896858
ISBN-10: 0192896857
Pagini: 506
Ilustrații: 32 Figures, 40 Tables
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru cercetătorii în economia dezvoltării și factorii de decizie politică. Cititorul va câștiga un set de instrumente metodologice inovatoare pentru a măsura mobilitatea socială în absența datelor statistice tradiționale. Este o resursă rară care combină rigoarea academică cu aplicabilitatea imediată în designul intervențiilor sociale, oferind răspunsuri concrete despre cum pot fi prevenite căderile catastrofale în sărăcie cronică.

Despre autor

Volumul este coordonat de trei experți de renume în economia dezvoltării. Vegard Iversen este cunoscut pentru cercetările sale asupra dinamicii pieței muncii și a inegalității, în timp ce Anirudh Krishna, profesor la Universitatea Duke, s-a specializat în strategii de ieșire din sărăcie la nivel comunitar. Kunal Sen, în calitate de director al UNU-WIDER, aduce o expertiză vastă în guvernanță și creștere economică. Împreună, acești editori reprezintă autoritatea supremă în cadrul seriei WIDER Studies in Development Economics, publicată sub egida OUP OXFORD.

Descriere

Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society. There are disagreements about what constitutes social mobility, but there is broad agreement that people should have roughly equal chances of success regardless of their economic status at birth. Concerns about rising inequality have engendered a renewed interest in social mobility--especially in the developing world. However, efforts to construct the databases and meet the standards required for conventional analyses of social mobility are at a preliminary stage and need to be complemented by innovative, conceptual, and methodological advances. If forms of mobility have slowed in the West, then we might be entering an age of rigid stratification with defined boundaries between the always-haves and the never-haves-which does not augur well for social stability. Social mobility research is ongoing, with substantive findings in different disciplines--typically with researchers in isolation from each other. A key contribution of this book is the pulling together of the emerging streams of knowledge. Generating policy-relevant knowledge is a principal concern.Three basic questions frame the study of diverse aspects of social mobility in the book. How to assess the extent of social mobility in a given development context when the datasets by conventional measurement techniques are unavailable? How to identify drivers and inhibitors of social mobility in particular developing country contexts? How to acquire the knowledge required to design interventions to raise social mobility, either by increasing upward mobility or by lowering downward mobility?

Recenzii

This collection of essays offers valuable insights on the measurement and meaning of social mobility both as an inherent part of economic development and as a valued outcome. This careful framing and measurement of an inherently long-term process, fraught with challenges even when the best data are available, deepens our understanding of equality of opportunity in a wide variety of countries and circumstances. This book will certainly be a valuable touchstone encouraging more research and thinking about the relationship between growth and mobility.
Social or economic mobility may well be the most important of all concepts related to social wellbeing, but it is also the most challenging, both conceptually and empirically. In this book, Iversen, Krishna, and Sen have assembled an all-star interdisciplinary group of authors who deftly navigate the labyrinth of different meanings, measures, and dimensions of mobility in the challenging context of low- and middle-income countries. The diversity of methods and perspectives is a real strength of this important contribution.
How can people in developing countries attain a better life? How secure are their achievements? Can they avert catastrophic descents into enduring impoverishment? What enables or impedes their upward social mobility, and what interventions might reduce (and prevent the widening of) social and economic inequalities? From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the studies in this book provide vital insights into the challenges of studying and comprehending social mobility in developing countries—and underline the urgency of highlighting the ever-shifting risks and precarity with which most people must grapple in their daily endeavours to sustain (and perhaps even enhance) their wellbeing.

Notă biografică

Vegard Iversen is Professor of Development Economics and Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich. After completing his PhD in development economics from University of Cambridge in 2000, he was tenured faculty at School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia until he moved to India in 2006. While living and working in India he was a Research Fellow in IFPRI's New Delhi office, a visiting faculty member at Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi), a Professor and Vice Dean at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, an Adjunct Professor at Sanford School of Public Policy's Duke Semester in India programme and a Professor in the Economics Area, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He received the Annual Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for the best article in Journal of Development Studies in 2008 and has served on the journal's editorial board since 2016.Anirudh Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. He received his PhD in government from Cornell University in 2000, and a Master's in economics from Delhi University in 1980. Professor Krishna's research investigates how poor communities and individuals in developing countries cope with the structural and personal constraints that result in poverty and powerlessness. Before returning to academia in 2000, he spent 14 years with the Indian Administrative Service, managing diverse rural and urban development initiatives. He received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 2011; the Olaf Palme Visiting Professorship from the Swedish Research Council in 2007; the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize in 2005 and 2013; and a best article award of the American Political Science Association in 2002.Kunal Sen has over three decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research. He is the author of eight books and the editor of five volumes on the economics and political economy of development. He is Director of UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, and is a Professor of development economics at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. Professor Sen is a leading international expert on the political economy of growth and development. He has performed extensive research on international finance, the political economy determinants of inclusive growth, the dynamics of poverty, social exclusion, female labour force participation, and the informal sector in developing economies. His research has focused on India, East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. He was awarded the Sanjaya Lall Prize in 2006 and the Dudley Seers Prize in 2003 for his publications.