Introduction to Accessible Housing -- Housing for All: From Rhetoric to A Reality Check on Slum Statistics for operationalising the Flagship missions in India -- India’s poor and better-off urban citizens: Cycles of proximity and segregation -- Housing Inequality by Social Groups, Gender, and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Theories and Evidence of Financial Vulnerability -- Chapter 3: Building a Financial Vulnerability Model -- Chapter 4: Socio-Cultural and Economic Institutions at the Local Level -- Chapter 5: The Household as Financial Manager -- Chapter 6: Markets and...

1. Introduction. Contextualising the Bioeconomy in an Unequal World: Biomass Sourcing and Global Socio-ecological Inequalities; Maria Backhouse, Rosa Lehmann, Kristina Lorenzen, Janina Puder, Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor -- Part 1 Rethinking the Bioeconomy, Energy, and Value Production -- 2....

1. Introduction -- 2. Social Inequality and the Plurality of Life-Styles -- 3. Inequality Processes and Vertical Social Stratification -- 4. Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics -- 5. From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa -- 6. The Order of Social Sciences -- 7. Bounded...

Preface -- Chapter 1 Poverty Alleviation Process in Rural China -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Absolute and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty -- Chapter 4 Pro-poor Growth for Rural China -- Chapter 5 The Decomposition of Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty --...

Soziale Netzwerke und gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten -- Theorien und Grundlagen -- Methodische Ansätze zur Untersuchung gesundheitlicher Ungleichheiten aus der Netzwerkperspektive -- Die Lebenslaufperspektive -- Horizontale und vertikale Dimensionen sozialer Ungleichheit -- Diskussion und Ausblick

This book is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK. It shows that, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage theft. Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class-the...

The quality of life experienced by people in the past is one of the most important areas of historical enquiry, and the standard of living of populations is one of the leading measures of the economic performance of nations. Yet how accurate is the information on which these judgments are based?...

Introduction (Paul Dobrescu) -- Part I. Envisaging Development in the Contemporary Society: Theory and Public Debates -- Why Do Some Countries Develop and Others Not? (Ian Goldin) -- Measuring the Hard-to-Measure in Development: Dimensions, Measurement Challenges, and Responses (Anne L....

1. The Labour Market in India -- 2. Labour Market Inequality -- 3. Discrimination and Jobs Reservation -- 4. Caste, Gender, and Occupational Outcomes -- 5. Job Contracts -- 6. Wage Inequality -- 7. The Way Forward