In light of the emphasis on “inclusion” in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this paper contends that social exclusion and inclusion are context-dependent concepts in at least three senses. First, the ideal of an inclusive society varies by country and by region. Second, different...

Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we analyze the intergenerational transmission of economic and social (dis-)advantages in Germany, the United States and...

Prevailing measures on the topics of monetary and non-monetary poverty-as well as economic and carbon inequality-are being critically assessed under sustainable development goals (SDGs) with a worldwide perspective. On the one hand, the poverty headcount ratio and the indices poverty gap,...

Economic exclusion can be defined as the arbitrary restriction on certain groups of the society to use the resources of the community which are necessary for the economic development of the group. When such exclusion takes place on the basis of caste it amounts to caste based economic exclusion...

Following calls for further research in education inequality beyond input and output measures, especially with a qualitative approach, and building on the implications of capability deprivation on equality (Unterhalter, 2003a; 2003b), we extend the findings of Sen's (1979; 1990; 1992; 2000) capability approach...