Inequality
Inclusive Future: Inequality, Inclusive Growth and the Post-2015 Framework
This Policy Note summarizes the main content of the workshop on ‘Inequality, Inclusive Growth and the post-2015 Framework’ convened by UNCDF in cooperation with UN-DESA and UNDP in New York on March 7th, 2013.
Voices from Urban Africa: The Impact of Urban Growth On Children
In this report from Save The Children, Anne Stotler Carol Miller and Jennifer Shindeldecker highlight the demographic trends that put children in urban settings at increasing risk.
Four Keys to Equitable Growth
May 7, 2012 | 12:12pm
In 1955, Simon Kuznets, a development economist, presented a theory of the relationship between income inequality in a country and the path to becoming a rich developed country.
Horizontal Inequalities as a Cause of Conflict
This paper surveys work investigating the hypothesis that the presence of major ‘horizontal inequalities’ (HIs) or inequalities among culturally defined groups significantly raises the risk of conflict (Stewart 2000). This theory is based on the notion that ‘when cultural differences coincide with economic and political differences between groups, this can cause deep resentment that may lead to violent struggles’.
The Politics of Poverty: Elites, Citizens and States - Findings from Ten Years of DFID-funded Research on Governance and Fragile States 2001–2010
This paper provides a brief overview of what DFID funded research programs have discovered about governance, fragility and conflict in the developing world.
Horizontal Inequalities, Political Environment and Civil Conflict: Evidence From 55 Developing Countries
This paper investigates the relationship between socioeconomic horizontal inequalities (inequalities between identity groups, HIs), regime type, electoral system, political exclusion of minorities and civil conflict onset.
Horizontal Inequalities, Political Environment and Civil Conflict: Evidence From 55 Developing Countries
This paper investigates the relationship between socioeconomic horizontal inequalities (inequalities between identity groups, HIs), regime type, electoral system, political exclusion of minorities and civil conflict onset.
The Implications of Horizontal Inequality for Aid
This paper argues that the reduction of Horizontal Inequalities (HIs), or inequalities between culturally defined groups, should inform aid policy in heterogeneous countries with severe HIs.
The Implications of Horizontal Inequality for Aid
This paper argues that the reduction of Horizontal Inequalities (HIs), or inequalities between culturally defined groups, should inform aid policy in heterogeneous countries with severe HIs.
Macro Adjustment Policies and Horizontal Inequalities
This paper examines the impact of structural adjustment policies on Horizontal Inequalities.
