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Intersecting inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Brazil
Kabeer, Naila; Santos, Ricardo Goulão - 2017
Concerns about the dramatic rise in income inequality across the world and, at the same time, assessments of national progress on the Millennium Development Goals made it clear that it is the intersection of income inequality, marginalized social identities and, very often, locational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943770
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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146572
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Trends in global inequality using a new integrated dataset
Gradín, Carlos - 2021
This paper presents preliminary evidence of the annual global income distribution since 1950 using a new integrated dataset that aggregates standardized country income distributions at the percentile level estimated from various sources in the World Income Inequality Database. I analyse the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651132
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Globalization and the emergence of a transnational oligarchy
Brezis, Elise S. - 2010
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century … recruitment may actually lead to class stratification and auto-recruitment. In this paper, I show that due to globalization, the … stratification effect will be even stronger. Globalization will bring about the formation of an international technocratic elite with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280198
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Aid, social policy, and development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418606
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Aid's impact on social protection in low- and middle-income countries
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Santillán Hernández, Alma Sofia - 2023
This study conducts an international comparative analysis of the recent evolution of social protection systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions, paying particular attention to the role of foreign aid in these dynamics. It asks:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477588
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Development aid and employment
van der Hoeven, Rolph - 2012
Globalization has led to a precarization of labour, which especially manifests in the unstable working conditions, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319763
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Aid and violence reduction
Hoeffler, Anke - 2023
Although the provision of security to all their citizens is a state's fundamental duty, over 50 countries experienced armed conflict in 2021. The international development community has identified armed conflict as an impediment to development and provides considerable resources to reduce armed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477567
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Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus three
Montes, Manuel F. - 2018
Six Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand) defied Gunnar Myrdal's pessimistic prognosis in his 1968 volume, Asian Drama, regarding their prospects for development. In the past half-century, these countries raised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943901
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On the distributional implications of social protection reforms in Latin America
Barrientos, Armando - 2011
The paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implications for welfare institutions in the region....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280118