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  • Great Gatsby and the Global South

    Intergenerational Mobility, Income Inequality, and Development

    by Diding Sakri, Andy Sumner, Arief Anshory Yusuf ...
    Series series Elements in Development Economics
    In the Global South economic mobility across generations or intergenerational economic mobility is in and of itself an important topic for research with consequences for policy. It concerns the 'stickiness' or otherwise of inequality because mobility is concerned with the extent to which children's economic outcomes are dependent on their parents' economic outcomes. Scholars have estimated levels ... Read more

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  • Equity Policies in Global Higher Education

    Reducing Inequality and Increasing Participation and Attainment

    Edited by Orlanda Tavares, Carla Sá, Cristina Sin, Alberto Amaral ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived backgrounds, socioeconomic inequalities persist in access to the most prestigious institutions and programmes. Privileged students benefit from a ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    by Martin Ravallion ...
    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

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  • The Global State of Gender Equality: An Overview of Empirical Findings

    Gender Equality, #2

    by Milos Kankaras ...
    Series Book 2 - Gender Equality
    Despite the persistent data gaps, a large amount of empirical evidence on the state of gender equality has been gathered worldwide, especially during the last few decades. This international data-gathering activity over the last decade largely revolved around the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Still, many other global, regional, and national initiatives and empirical programs have ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

    Edited by David Brady, Linda M. Burton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity and behavior. Nevertheless, the study of poverty has remained disconnected across disciplines. The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Employment Equity in Canada

    The Legacy of the Abella Report

    by Carol Agocs ...
    In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine the state of employment equity in Canada today.Examining the evidence of nearly thirty years, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Social Income and Insecurity

    A Study in Gujarat

    by Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, Uma Rani ...
    Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world. This is placing urgent demands on policymakers to rethink old policies and institutions.This book sets out a new approach to the assessment of income dynamics, based on identifying the diverse components of people’s income and entitlements. It defines ‘social ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Welfare Reform in Canada

    Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Pierre-Marc Daigneault, Daniel Béland ...
    Series series The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy
    Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Social Assistance in Developing Countries

    by Armando Barrientos ...
    The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade. Explaining how flagship anti-poverty programmes emerged, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries. Armando Barrientos begins by ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Making EI Work

    Research from the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force

    by Keith Banting, Jon Medow ...
    Series Book 89 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Making EI Work is the result of a panel of distinguished scholars gathered by the Mowat Centre Employment ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • What Works in Improving Gender Equality

    International Best Practice in Childcare and Long-term Care Policy

    by Kirstein Rummery, Craig McAngus, Alcuin Edwards ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on comparative research from five countries, What Works in Improving Gender Equality provides an accessible analysis of what gender equality means and how we can achieve it by adapting best practices in care policies from other countries.Realistic policy solutions are reached by examining the contexts in which childcare and ... Read more

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  • The Microfinance Impact

    by Ranjula Bali Swain ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Financial inclusion through microfinance has become a powerful force in improving the living conditions of poor farmers, rural non-farm enterprises and other vulnerable groups. In its unique ability to link the existing extensive network of India’s rural bank branches with the Self Help Groups (SHG), the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has covered up to 97 million poor ... Read more

    $72.99 USD