Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty

by FitzGerald, Valpy; Heyer, Judith; Thorp, Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9780230249707
• ISBN10: 0230249701
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

International experts evaluate new policy directions in economic development and poverty reduction, building on the ideas of a pioneer in the new discipline of Development Studies, Frances Stewart. Combing ideas and evidence on technological change, human development and conflict prevention to address the issue of the persistence of inequality

Author Biography

Valpy FitzGerald is Head of the Oxford Department of International Development and Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK. His research interests include the impact of external capital flows on macroeconomic behaviour - and through that on growth and income distribution - in emerging market economies; and the long-run economic development of Latin America. Judith Heyer is Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Honorary Associate of the Oxford Department of International Development, and Associate of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK. Her most recent publication is The Comparative Political Economy of Development: Africa and South Asia (with Barbara Harriss-White). Rosemary Thorp is Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK, and Emeritus Reader of the University. She was Director of the Latin American Centre and Director of Queen Elizabeth House (now the Oxford Department of International Development) in 2003-4. Between 2001 and 2006 she was also Chair of Oxfam GB. Among her principal works are Peru 1890-1977: Growth and Policy in an Open Economy (with Geoffrey Bertram) and Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America.

Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION
Presenting the Book; V.FitzGerald, J.Heyer& R.Thorp
Social Wellbeing and Conflict: Themes from the Work of Frances Stewart; J.Toye
PART II: TECHNICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Technology Change: Sources and Impediments; G.Ranis, M.Irons& Y.Huang
Migration and Productivity Patterns in European Regions; G.B.Navaretti, G.De Simone, G.Orefice& A.Salvi
Revisiting Technology and Underdevelopment: Climate Change, Politics and the ‘D’ of Solar Energy Technology in Contemporary India; B.Harriss-White, S.Rohra& N.Singh
PART III: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY
Advancing Human Development: Values, Groups, Power and Conflict; S.Deneulin
Welfare Regimes and Economic Development: Bridging the Conceptual Gap; T.Mkandawire
Democracy, the New Left and Income Distribution: Latin America over the last Decade; G.A.Cornia& B.Martorano
PART IV: CONFLICT, ETHNICITY AND INEQUALITY
Understanding Horizontal Inequalities: the Role of Civil Society; G.K.Brown
Horizontal Inequalities and Militancy: The Case of Nigeria’s Niger Delta; A.Langer& U.Ukiwo
Seeking Representativeness: Affirmative Action in Nigeria and South Africa Compared; A.R.Mustapha
Frances Stewart: A Selected Bibliography