PART I: INTRODUCTION
1: Carlos Gradín, Murray Leibbrandt, and Finn Tarp: Setting the
scene
PART II: GLOBAL INEQUALITY AND INEQUALITY WITHIN COUNTRIES
2: Martin Ravallion: What might explain today's conflicting
narratives on global inequality?
3: James Davies and Anthony Shorrocks: Comparing global inequality
of income and wealth
4: Daniele Checchi, Andrej Cupak, and Teresa Munzi: Empirical
challenges comparing inequality across countries: the case of
middle-income countries from the LIS Database
PART III: INEQUALITY IN FIVE DEVELOPING GIANTS
5: Marcelo Neri: Brazil: what are the main drivers of income
distribution changes in the new millennium?
6: Shi Li, Terry Sicular, and Finn Tarp: China: structural change,
transition, rent seeking and corruption, and government policy
7: Hai-Anh H. Dang and Peter Lanjouw: India: inequality trends and
dynamic: From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first
century inclusive growth strategy: explaining the demise of a
successful growth model and what to do about it s, the bird's-eye
and the granular perspectives
8: Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, Nora Lustig, and John Scott: Mexico:
labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989-2014
9: Murray Leibbrandt, Vimal Ranchhod, and Pippa Green: South
Africa: the top-end, labour markets, fiscal redistribution and the
persistence of very high inequality
PART IV: INEQUALITY IN A BROADER CONTEXT
10: Andrew Clark and Conchita D'Ambrosio: Economic inequality and
subjective wellbeing across the world
11: Roy van der Weide and Ambar Narayan: China versus the United
States: different economic models but similarly low levels of
socioeconomic mobility
12: Joseph E. Stiglitz: From manufacturing-led export growth to a
twenty-first century inclusive growth strategy: explaining the
demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it
PART V: SYNTHESIS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
13: Carlos Gradín, Murray Leibbrandt, and Finn Tarp: Synthesis and
policy implications
Carlos Gradín is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University
World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in
Helsinki, and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of
Vigo. His main research interest is the study of poverty,
inequality, and discrimination in both developed and developing
countries, especially inequalities between population groups. His
research deals with enhancing the empirical evidence as well as
methodological tools for the measurement and understanding of those
issues. His research has been widely published in several
international journals. Murray Leibbrandt holds the National
Research Foundation Chair in
Poverty and Inequality Research in the School of Economics at the
University of Cape Town. He is the Director of the Southern Africa
Labour and Development Research Unit and the African Centre of
Excellence for Inequality Research within the African Research
Universities Alliance. He is on the Executive Committee of the
International Economic Association and is a Senior Research Fellow
of UNU-WIDER. From 2007 to 2019 he was a Principal Investigator on
the National Income Dynamics Study, South
Africa's national longitudinal study. He has published widely in
development economics using survey data and especially panel data
to analyse South African poverty, inequality, and labour market
dynamics. Finn Tarp is a Professor at the University of Copenhagen
(UCPH) and Coordinator of the UCPH Development Economics Research
Group (DERG). Director of UNU-WIDER from 2009 to 2018, and now a
Non-Resident Senior Fellow of UNU-WIDER, Professor Tarp is a
leading international expert on development strategy and foreign
aid, with an interest in poverty, income distribution, and growth,
micro- and macroeconomic policy and modelling, agricultural sector
policy and planning, household/enterprise
development, and economic adjustment and reform as well as climate
change, sustainability, and natural resources. He has published
widely in leading economics and development journals and books
by
international academic publishers.
By bringing together this superb group of authors and deploying
their considerable talents to key questions about how and why
inequality is changing in some of the world's largest countries —
as well as globally — the editors of this volume have done us a
tremendous service. In my endorsement of the book, I called it a
"must-read" volume and I stand by that assessment. I particularly
enjoyed the combination of the three "big-picture" chapters at the
outset with the five detailed country studies that follow.
*Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Journal of Economic Inequality*
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