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Technology and Inequality : Concentrated Wealth in a Digital World

Allen, Jonathan P. - 2017

This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the...

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Lebenslage, Umwelt und Gesundheit : Der Einfluss sozialer Faktoren auf die Entstehung von Allergien

Elvers, Horst-Dietrich - 2005 - 1. Auflage

I. Einleitung -- II. Allergische Erkrankungen -- III. Soziale Ungleichheit und Gesundheit -- IV. Zum Umweltbegriff -- V …Gesundheit weist enge Bezüge zu sozialer Ungleichheit auf. In der Regel ist der Gesundheitszustand von Angehörigen der … als gesundheitlicher Risikofaktor im engeren Sinne verstanden werden darf. Wirkungen sozialer Ungleichheit auf Gesundheit …

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Inequality, Polarization and Conflict : An Analytical Study

Chakravarty, Satya R. - 2015

Chapter 1. Measuring Inequality -- Chapter 2. On the Measurement of Income Bipolarization -- Chapter 3. Measurement of Income Multi-Polar Polarization -- Chapter 4. Reduced -Form Indices of Income Polarization -- Chapter 5. Social Polarization -- Chapter 6. Measurement of Polarization for a...

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Development Disparities in India : An Enquiry into Convergence

Banerjee, Arpita - 2015

Chapter 1. Regional Development in India -- Chapter 2. Development Disparities: An Exploration of Past Research -- Chapter 3. Regional Disparity in India: A Research Agenda -- Chapter 4. Regional Inequality and Convergence in Economic Growth in India -- Chapter 5. Regional Disparity and...

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Efficiency and Equity in Welfare Economics

Nicola, Pier Carlo - 2013

Overview -- Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare: Social Welfare and Income Distributions -- Inequality and Poverty Indexes -- Welfare and Efficiency: Inequality, Efficiency, and the Production Sphere -- Efficiency and Welfare -- Information Incentives and Performance -- Summary Example and...

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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America : Decades of Change

Ystanes, Margit (ed.); Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (ed.) - Workshop on Inequality in Latin America <2015, Bergen, … - 2018

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the...

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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach : Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications

Kuklys, Wiebke (contributor) - 2005

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms...

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Poverty and Equity : Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD

Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor); … - 2006

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Poverty, Inequality and Development : Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke

Janvry, Alain (contributor); Kanbur, Ravi (contributor) - 2006

Traditionally, there have been two strands in the analysis of poverty, inequality and development - a micro strand that focuses on individual behavior, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and poverty, and a macro strand that analyzes economy-wide policies and the role of...

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AIDS and Aid : A Public Good Approach

Sonntag, Diana - 2010

The Challenge: A Transnational Response to HIV/AIDS -- Profiling the Provision Status of Health-Promoting Public Goods Against AIDS -- International Transfers -- Regional Constraints and HIV/AIDS -- Summary and Concluding Remarks

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