Table of Contents

Introduction: Affirmative Action, Horizontal Inequalities, and Equitable Development 1. Poverty, Equality, and Affirmative Action in India 2. The Struggle for Equality and Justice: Affirmative Action in the United States of America 3. Ethnicity, Economy, and Affirmative Action in Malaysia 4. Coerced Preferences: Affirmative Action and Horizontal Inequality in Fiji 5. Affirmative Action in South Africa: Disadvantaging the Many for the Benefit of the Few 6. Contextualising Equality? Affirmative Action, Identity, and Conflict in Northern Ireland 7. Appraising Affirmative Action in Brazil

About the Author

Edmund Terence Gomez is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Malaya.





Ralph Premdas is Professor of Public Policy at the University of the West
Indies.