Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Presenting the Book

      • Valpy FitzGerald, Judith Heyer, Rosemary Thorp

      Pages 3-18

   3. Social Wellbeing and Conflict: Themes from the Work of Frances Stewart

      • John Toye

      Pages 19-42

3. Technical Change and Economic Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Technology Change: Sources and Impediments

      • Gustav Ranis, Mallory Irons, Yanjing Huang

      Pages 45-72

   3. Migration and Productivity Patterns in European Regions

      • Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Gianfranco De Simone, Gianluca Orefice, Angelica Salvi

      Pages 73-91

   4. Revisiting Technology and Underdevelopment: Climate Change, Politics and the ‘D’ of Solar Energy Technology in Contemporary India

      • Barbara Harriss-White, Sunali Rohra, Nigel Singh

      Pages 92-123

4. Human Development, Income Distribution and Poverty

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Advancing Human Development: Values, Groups, Power and Conflict

      • Séverine Deneulin

      Pages 127-148

   3. Welfare Regimes and Economic Development: Bridging the Conceptual Gap

      • Thandika Mkandawire

      Pages 149-171

   4. Democracy, the New Left and Income Distribution: Latin America over the Last Decade

      • Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Bruno Martorano

      Pages 172-199

5. Conflict, Ethnicity and Inequality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Understanding Horizontal Inequalities: The Role of Civil Society

      • Graham K. Brown

      Pages 203-230

   3. Horizontal Inequalities and Militancy: The Case of Nigeria’s Niger Delta

      • Arnim Langer, Ukoha Ukiwo

      Pages 231-250

   4. Seeking Representativeness: Affirmative Action in Nigeria and South Africa Compared

      • Abdul Raufu Mustapha

      Pages 251-276

6. Back Matter

   Pages 277-301

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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

• conflict
• democracy
• development
• development studies
• Economic Development
• income distribution
• migration
• Policy
• poverty
• prevention
• work
• development policy

• Oxford Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), UK

  Valpy FitzGerald, Rosemary Thorp

• Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK

  Judith Heyer

GIORGIO BARBA NAVARETTI Professor of Economics at the University of Milan, Italy, Director of the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences of the University of Milan and Scientific Director of the Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, Italy GRAHAM K. BROWN Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Development at the Department of Economics and International Development of the University of Bath, UK, and Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford, UK GIOVANNI ANDREA CORNIA Professor of Development Economics in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Florence, Italy SÉVERINE DENEULIN Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath, UK GIANFRANCO DE SIMONE economist at Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, Italy BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oxford, UK YANJING HUANG former MA student at Yale University, USA MALLORY IRONS analyst in public finance at an investment banking firm in New York City, USA ARNIM LANGER Research Officer in Economics and Politics, West Africa, at the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford, UK BRUNO MARTORANO PhD candidate at the University of Florence, Italy THANDIKA MKANDAWIRE Professor of African Development at the London School of Economics, UK ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA University Lecturer in African Politics at the University of Oxford, UK, andKirk-Greene Fellow in African studies at St Antony's College, UK GIANLUCA OREFICE PhD student in Economics at the University of Milan, Italy GUSTAV RANIS Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale University, USA SUNALI ROHRA heads external relations for a leading management consulting firm in India ANGELICA SALVI Fellow at the Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, Italy NIGEL SINGH producer for the BBC and Channel Four, UK JOHN TOYE Chair of the Advisory Council of the Oxford Department of International Development, UK UKOHA UKIWO lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

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