| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2010050730 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780230249707 (hardback) |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
338.9 |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Overcoming the persistence of inequality and poverty / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
[edited by] Valpy FitzGerald, Judith Heyer, and Rosemary Thorp. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
New York : |
| Publisher |
Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Date |
2011. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 393 p. : |
| Other Details |
ill. ; |
| Size |
23 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| CONTENTS |
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: -- 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. |
| SUMMARY |
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| 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"-- |
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Economic development. |
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Income distribution. |
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Poverty. |
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Equality. |
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| Name |
Fitzgerald, E. V. K. |
| Dates |
1947- |
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Editor |
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Heyer, Judith. |
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Editor |
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Thorp, Rosemary. |
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Editor |
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