Dimensions of Inequality: Impacts on Growth, Governance, and Human Development

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This open access book offers a balanced, readable introduction to key topics around inequality across the globe.

It indicates the broad range of measures necessary to understand and address inequality, and it shows how individuals around the world perceive and act on inequality in different ways. In so doing, it shares fundamental knowledge and resources necessary for further progress towards UN Sustainable Development Goal 10, Reduced Inequalities, as well as towards UN SDG 16, Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions.

The book not only presents wide-ranging syntheses of relevant scholarly literature, but also provides new findings from @EQUAL, a large consortium project partnering research institutions across the Global North and Global South. Using plenty of illustrative examples from the Global South in particularincluding from Colombia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, and Vietnameach chapter addresses a key question or set of questions around inequality. Each provides suggestions for further reading, while an appendix at the end of the book summarizes key research publications from @EQUAL and related sources.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Author Bio

Ines A. Ferreira is Assistant Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (UCPH), and a member of the UCPH Development Economics Research Group (UCPH-DERG).

Rachel M. Gisselquist is Senior Research Fellow at the UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Finland (UNU-WIDER).

Finn Tarp is Professor of Development Economics at University of Copenhagen as well as Coordinator of UCPH-DERG. He was Director of UNU-WIDER from 2009 to 2018.