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World social science report 2016 :

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World social science report 2016 :

[Book]

challenging inequalities : pathways to a just world

UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; IDS, Institute of Development Studies; ISSC, International Social Science Council.

Paris, France

UNESCO Publishin

[2016] ©2016

(359 pages) : color illustrations

Social science challenges inequalities : general introduction / Françoise Caillods and Mathieu Denis --Challenging inequalities : pathways to a just world : key messages and main contributions / Melissa Leach, John Gaventa, Patricia Justino, Françoise Caillods and Mathieu Denis --Drivers and dynamics of inequalities worldwide / Patricia Justino and Bruno Martorano --Global versus national inequality / François Bourguignon --Global inequality and the middle classes / Branko Milanovic --Wage and income inequality / Patrick Belser --Horizonal inequalities / Frances Stewart --"Leaving no one behind" : the challenge of intersecting inequalities / Naila Kabeer --Inequality and natural resources in Africa / James C. Murombedzi --Inequality in education : the challenge of measurement / Manos Antoninis, Marcos Delprato and Aaron Benavot --Postcard. The multiple forms of digital inequality / Ben Ramalingam and Kevin Hernandez --Untangling economic and political inequality : the case of South Africa / John Gaventa and Carin Runciman --Grounding justice and injustice / Ruth Fincher --Rising economic inequality and gender inequality : intersecting spheres of injustice / Shahra Razavi --Recent changes in income inequality in China / Li Shi --Inequality in India : drivers and consequences / Jayati Ghosh --Social jsutice and equality/inequality issues in modern-day Russia / Natalia Grigorieva --Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa : dimensions and drivers / Jimi O. Adesina --Inequalities in the Arab region / Adam Hanieh --The invisible hands of racial inequality in the USA / Fredrick C. Harris --Income inequality in Brazil : new evidence from combined tax and survey data / Marcelo Medeiros --Consequences and futures of inequalities / John Gaventa --Postcard. Inequality : a historical issue within the United Nations System / Richard Jolly --Economic growth and poverty reduction : the inequality connection / Ravi Kanbur --Inequality and political conflict / Gudrun Østby --Postcard. Perceived inequalities among Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees / Charles Harb --Inequality and sustainability / Melissa Leach --Postcard. Challenging intersecting inequalities around access towater / Tahseen Jafry, Blessings Chinsinga, Lilian Zimba and Ted Scanlon --Poverty and environmental inequality in India / Sunita Narain --Heath and social justice in Egypt : towards a health equity perspective / Soha Bayoumi --Postcard. The Ebola crisis : inequality and distrust / Annie Wilkinson and Abu A. Brima --The spatial patterning of exposure to inequality and its social consequences in South Africa : work in progress / David McLennan --Postcard. Food rights and wrongs / Naomi Hossain --The role of aspirations in the exclusion of Peruvian indigenous children / Laure Pasquier-Doumer --Postcard. Social inequality and young people in Europe : their capacity to aspire / Evelyne Baillergeau and Jan Willem Duyvendak --Postcard. Consequences of inequality for persons with disabilities : experience of ADD International / Emma Cain --Inequality, economic democracy and sustainability / Madeleine Power, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett --Malaise in the Western middle classes / Louis Chauvel and Anne Hartung --BRICS and global inequality / Jing Gu, Alex Shankland, Anuradha Chenoy and Gerry Bloom --Inequalities and social progress in the future / Marc Fleurbaey and Stephan Klasen --Inequality in an increasingly automated world / Lizzie Sayer --Postcard. Digital connections in the face of inequality / Charles Onyango-Obbo --Towards equality : transformative pathways / Melissa Leach --Labour market institutions and inequality / Janine Berg --Inequality and global social policy : policies, actors and strategies / Bob Deacon --The decline and recent uptick of income inequality in Latin America, 2002-13 / Giovanni Andrea Cornia --Taxation and inequality : lessons from Latin America / Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaíni, Bruno Martorano and Dalmiro Morán --Global instruments for tackling inequality : the African experience / Adebayo O. Olukoshi --Postcard. Financial liberalization and global inequality / Stephany Griffith-Jones and E.A. Brett --Postcard. Could changes in the international tax system be a strategy for dealing with inequality? / Mick Moore --A seat at the table is not enough : gender and political inclusion / Sohela Nazneen --Postcard. Land redistribution : opportunities and traps / Michael Lipton --Legal rights as instrumetns for challenging inequality / Celestine Nyamu Musembi --Postcard. Reducing inequality through transformative institutional policies : the case of the industrial court of Nigeria / Caroline Joelle Nwabueze --Social protection, inequality and social justice / Keetie Roelen, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux --Postcard. Unconditional basic income / Erik Olin Wright --Postcard. Universal health coverage as a powerful social equalizer / Rüdiger Krech --Critical elements for ensuring the success of more inclusive social policies --Inequality and corruption / Bo Rothstein --Why social movements matter for addressing inequalities and ensuring social justice / Leandro Vergara-Camus --Postcard. Inequalities and protests / Isabel Ortiz and Sara Burke --Postcard. Africa's uprisings ; no end in sight / Adam Branch and Zachariah Mampilly --Postcard. Representing inequality : film, literature and the arts / Mike van Graan --Grass-roots pathways for challenging social and political inequality / Alison Mathie with E. Alma, A. Ansorena, J. Basnet, Y. Ghore, S. Jarrin, J. Landry, N. Lee, B. von Lieres, V. Miller, M. de Montis, S. Nakazwe, S. Pal, B. Peters, R. Riyawala, V. Schreibder, M.A. Shariff, A. Tefera and N. Zulminarni --Postcard. Equality as a valued social norm, inequality as an injustice / Sakiki Fukuda-Parr --A historical view of the politics of inequality / Duncan Green --Postcard. Rising extreme inequality is a concern for us all / Winnie Byanyima --A global research agenda on inequality for the next ten years / The World Social Science Report 2016 Editorial Team --Knowledge divides : social science production on inequalities and social justice / Françoise Caillods --The use of big data in the analysis of inequality / Mike Savage --Tax and legal havens : a priority for inequality research / Mike Savage --Tax and legal haves : a priority for inequality research / Alain Deneault --Postcard. Increasing childhood equality in cities : a practical intervention through policy, research and advocacy / Alberto Minujin --Postcard. Local knowledge as a common good / Kemly Camacho Jiménez --Postcard. A proposal to monitor intersecting inequalities in the post-2015 Agenda / Deborah S. Rogers.

The Report--launched on 22 September at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm--highlights significant gaps in social science data about inequalities in different parts of the world and, to support progress towards more inclusive societies, calls for more robust research into the links between economic inequalities and disparities in areas such as gender, education and health.

Challenging inequalities : pathways to a just world

Equality.

Social stratification.

UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; IDS, Institute of Development Studies; ISSC, International Social Science Council.

Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England)

International Social Science Council

Unesco

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