Inequality
- Addressing inequalities beween Muslim and non-Muslim communities
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This paper looks at inequalities between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the world. Horizontal inequalities adverse to Muslims are widespread. This has led to violent unrest in some cases. Inequalities between Muslims and non-Muslims need to be reduced both within and between countries.
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- Can both internal and external factors influence income inequality?
- ( G. Cornia / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group , 2010)
- This paper reviews factors that have led to a decline in income inequality that has taken place over 2002–2007 in most Latin American countries against the background of its steady increase over...
- Older women in India face marginalisation
- ( Agewell Foundation , 2011)
- India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+). This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from t...
- Poverty reduction is uneven across the Asian region
- ( G. Wan;I. Sebastian / Asian Development Bank , 2011)
- Despite continued poverty reduction in the region, Asia and the Pacific remains home to the majority of the world’s poor. In 2008, around 63% of the poor worldwide lived in the region....
- Voices of the poor should be included in budgetary processes
- ( F. Khatun;T.I. Khan;A. Nabi / Bangladesh Online Research Network , 2011)
- This dialogue report provides a view of poverty in Bangladesh. The country has been performing well from the growth perspective in the recent past as GDP growth rate has been on average of 5.8% per ye...
- Eradication of poverty dependent on broad-based stabilisation policies that focus on stimulating investment
- ( L. Ainbinder;R. Kaczmarska;P.L. Kelly / Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations , 2010)
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This report on the world social situation seeks to contribute to a rethinking poverty and its eradication. The paper affirms the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalis...
- Inequality in South Africa lower than previously thought
- ( A. Bosch;J. Rossouw;T. Claassens;B. du Plessis / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa , 2010)
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The distribution of income and wealth in South Africa is core to political debate in the country. At the heart of the debate is the Gini coefficient, which is the international standard for measuri...
- Using religion to achieve social change and increased prosperity
- ( S.S. Jodhka;A. Kumar / International Development Department, University of Birmingham , 2010)
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This research focuses on the place of religion in two lower caste movements for social change in the Indian states of Punjab and Maharashtra. The paper notes that both groups faced the challenge of...
- The Global Gender Gap Report 2010
- ( R Hausmann;L Tyson;S Zahidi / World Economic Forum , 2010)
- The Global Gender Gap Index was introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, as a framework for capturing and measuring gender based disparities and tracking their progress. It seeks to highlight t...
- Social transfers accelerate progress towards the MDGs, but the elderly are still not being recognised as a priority
- ( A. Walker Bourne;F. Morgan / HelpAge International , 2010)
- Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old...
- Stabilising post-apartheid South African society
- ( J. Handmaker (ed);R. Berkhout (ed) / University of Pretoria , 2010)
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This book aims at providing an account of the research findings that emerged from Chalsty Centre Conference, which was organised as a meeting of civil activists in 2009 in South Africa (SA). The co...
