Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty

Part I. Introduction

1. Presenting the Book
Valpy FitzGerald, Judith Heyer, Rosemary Thorp

2. Social Wellbeing and Conflict: Themes from the Work of Frances Stewart
John Toye

Part II. Technical Change and Economic Development

3. Technology Change: Sources and Impediments
Gustav Ranis, Mallory Irons, Yanjing Huang

4. Migration and Productivity Patterns in European Regions
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Gianfranco Simone, Gianluca Orefice, Angelica Salvi

5. Revisiting Technology and Underdevelopment: Climate Change, Politics and the ‘D’ of Solar Energy Technology in Contemporary India
Barbara Harriss-White, Sunali Rohra, Nigel Singh

Part III. Human Development, Income Distribution and Poverty

6. Advancing Human Development: Values, Groups, Power and Conflict
Séverine Deneulin

7. Welfare Regimes and Economic Development: Bridging the Conceptual Gap
Thandika Mkandawire

8. Democracy, the New Left and Income Distribution: Latin America over the Last Decade
Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Bruno Martorano

Part IV. Conflict, Ethnicity and Inequality

9. Understanding Horizontal Inequalities: The Role of Civil Society
Graham K. Brown

10. Horizontal Inequalities and Militancy: The Case of Nigeria’s Niger Delta
Arnim Langer, Ukoha Ukiwo

11. Seeking Representativeness: Affirmative Action in Nigeria and South Africa Compared
Abdul Raufu Mustapha

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Development Policy, Public Policy, Political Sociology, Political Economy, Political Science, Social Structure, Social Inequality