This article argues that low horizontal inequalities, or inequalities among groups, should form an intrinsic aspect of a shared society. It argues, on the basis of several philosophical analyses, that horizontal inequalities are not only unjust, but they also contribute to violent conflict and...

Frances Stewart argues that significant levels of aid from rich to poor countries will come to be viewed as peculiar to the second half of the 20th century. With the end of the cold war and the replacement of Keynesian interventionist models of development by laissez-faire capitalism in most...