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Zusatztext ... provides a systematic analysis of the changes in within-country income inequality over the last twenty years. Informationen zum Autor Giovanni Andrea Cornia is currently professor of economics at the University of Florence. Before this, he was the Director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) in Helsinki (1995-2000), and Director of the Economic and Social Policy Research Programme at the International Child Development Centre (the world-wide research centre of UNICEF) in Florence (1989-95). He was also the Chief Economist at UNICEF Headquarters in New York (1981-89) and held research positions at UNCTAD, UNECE (with a long spell at ECLAC in Santiago) and the Economic Studies Centre of FIAT. Klappentext Based on an extensive review of relevant literature and an econometric analysis of inequality indexes, this volume provides the first systematic analysis of the changes in within-country income inequality over the last twenty years. In particular, it shows that inequality worsened in seventy per cent of the 73 developed, developing, and transitional countries analysed, and evaluates possible causes for this widespread rise in income inequality. The book goes on to offer the first empirical assessment of the relation between policies towards liberalization and globalization and income inequality. Zusammenfassung Based on a review of relevant literature and an econometric analysis of inequality indexes, this volume provides the systematic analysis of the changes in within-country income inequality over years. It offers the empirical assessment of the relation between policies towards liberalization and globalization and income inequality. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: INCOME DISTRIBUTION TRENDS,THEORIES AND POLICIES 1: Giovanni Andrea Cornia: Inequality, Growth and Poverty: An Overview of Changes over the Last Two Decades 2: Income Distribution Changes and Their Impact in the Post-World War II period Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Tony Addison with Sampsa Kiiski: Income Distribution Changes and Their Impact in the Post-World War II period PART II: TRADITIONAL CAUSES OF INEQUALITY: STILL RELEVANT FOR EXPLAINING ITS RISE IN THE 1980s-90s? 3: Michael Carter: Land Ownership Inequality and the Income Distribution Consequences of Economic Growth 4: Daniele Checchi: Does Educational Achievement Help Explain Income Inequality? 5: Michael Lipton and Rob Eastwood: Rural and Urban Income and Poverty: Does Convergence Between Sectors Offset Divergence within Them? PART III. RECENT FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME 6: Ajit Singh and Rahul Dhumale: Globalization, Technology and Income Inequality: A Critical Analysis 7: Lance Taylor: External Liberalization, Economic Performance and Distribution in Latin America and Elsewhere 8: Rolph van der Hoeven and Catherine Saget: Labour Market Institutions and Income Inequality: What are the New Insights after the Washington Consensus? 9: Anthony B. Atkinson: Increased Income Inequality in OECD Countries and the Redistributive Impact of the Government Budget 10: Ke-young Chu, Amid Davoodi and Sanjeev Gupta: Income Distribution and Tax and Government Social Spending Policies in Developing Countries 11: Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Sanjay Reddy: The Impact of Adjustment Related Social Funds on Income Distribution and Poverty PART IV. COUNTRY CASE STUDIES 12: Raghbendra Jha: Reducing Poverty and Inequality in India: Has Liberalization Helped? 13: Francisco Rodriguez: Factor Shares and Resource Booms: Accounting for the Evolution of Venezuelan Inequality 14: Erinc Yeldan: The Impact of Financial Liberalization and the Rise of Financial Rents on Income Inequality: The Case of Turkey 15: Carolyn Jenkins and Lynne Thomas: The Changing Nature of Inequality in South Africa 16: Isra Sarntisart: Growth, Structural Change and Inequality: ...
