Institutional pathways to equity [[electronic resource] ] : addressing inequality traps / / Anthony J. Bebbington ... [et al.], editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.2
• Soggetto topico: Income distribution; Institutional economics; Equality; Poverty
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BebbingtonAnthony <1962->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Inequalities and development: dysfunctions, traps and transitions / Anthony J. Bebbington ... [et al.] -- Inequality traps and institutionalized inequities -- Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced? / Rachel Sabates-Wheeler -- Beneath the categories: power relations and inequalities in Uganda / Joy M. Moncrieffe -- Inequalities within India's poorest regions: why do the same institutions work differently in different places? / Arjan de Haan -- Institutional transitions and pathways towards equity -- Indigenous political voice and the struggle for recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia / José Antonio Lucero -- Cash transfers for older people reduce poverty and inequality / Armando Barrientos -- Mineral wealth, conflict, and equitable development / Michael L. Ross -- Spain: development, democracy, and equity / Carles Boix.
• Sommario/riassunto: Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experience stagnating or increasing inequality, and that inequality can itself limit the poverty reducing effects of growth. Indeed, recent work indicates that, in addition to its intrinsic value, equity should be valued for its positive impacts on growth and the poverty-reducing effects of such growth. These concerns are coupled with questions of governance. This is because institutional arrangements affe
• Titolo autorizzato: Institutional pathways to equity
• ISBN: 0-8213-7014-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454039503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New frontiers of social policy.