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Welfare State at Risk : Rising Inequality in Europe
Eißel, Dieter - 2014
Families in Europe.- 8 Transition Into Adulthood, Life Course, Inequalities and Social Change -- 9 Unsuccessful in Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017179
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Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran : Developments since the Revolution
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (ed.); Alaedini, Pooya (ed.) - 2016
This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades. During this period, income distribution and economic welfare were affected by the 1979 Revolution, the eight-year war with Iraq, post-war privatization and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397375
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Inequity in Indian Health Care
Purohit, Brijesh C. - 2017
This book addresses major aspects of inequity, such as access, financing, financial risk protection, gender, service delivery and utilization, in the healthcare sector in India,. Further, it discusses various measures for defining inequity in each of these aspects, and employs different indices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397417
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Inequality, Poverty and Development in India : Focus on the North Eastern Region
De, Utpal Kumar (ed.); Pal, Manoranjan (ed.);  … - 2017
This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption, environmental resource management, agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397654
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A Violent World : Modern Threats to Economic Stability
Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé - 2016
During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict. In this book, the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of the global economy. Three of them are new: the aging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397882
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Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction? : Looking Over the Long Run
Bértola, Luis (ed.); Williamson, Jeffrey (ed.) - 2017
INTRODUCTION -- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America -- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS -- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621736
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The Heterogeneity Link of the Welfare State and Redistribution : Ethnic Heterogeneity, Welfare State Policies, Poverty, and Inequality in High Income Countries
Wagle, Udaya R. - 2013
Introduction -- Ethnic Heterogeneity -- The Welfare State -- Poverty and Inequality -- Ethnic Heterogeneity and the Welfare State -- Ethnic Heterogeneity and Poverty and Inequality -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017224
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Einkommensverteilung, Wachstum und Krisenentstehung : Geschichte, Theorien und empirische Evidenz
Trappl, Stefan - 2018
Dieses Buch betrachtet die Entwicklung der funktionalen und personellen Einkommensverteilung und deren Verortung im … funktionalen und zur personellen Einkommensverteilung dargestellt. Ansätze der Mainstream-Ökonomie werden heterodoxen Ansätzen … betrachtet, konkret wird die Entwicklung der funktionalen bzw. personellen Einkommensverteilung in insgesamt 14 Ländern zwischen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019041
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Inequality, Polarization and Poverty : Advances in Distributional Analysis
Chakravarty, Satya R. - 2009
The study of inequality, polarization and poverty is crucial for understanding the economic well-being of the population of a country. Conceptual and methodological advances and better data have provided better insights into these issues in recent years, and it is the objective of the book to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013522810
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454752