Institutional pathways to equity : addressing inequality traps

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Author:

Bebbington, Anthony, 1962-

ISBN:

9780821370131

9780821370148

Publication Information:

Washington, DC : World Bank, c2008.

Physical Description:

xxi, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

New frontiers of social policy

Series Title:

New frontiers of social policy

Contents:

Inequalities and development: dysfunctions, traps and transitions / Anthony J. Bebbington ... [et al.] -- Inequality traps and institutionalized inequities -- Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced? / Rachel Sabates-Wheeler -- Beneath the categories: power relations and inequalities in Uganda / Joy M. Moncrieffe -- Inequalities within India's poorest regions: why do the same institutions work differently in different places? / Arjan de Haan -- Institutional transitions and pathways towards equity -- Indigenous political voice and the struggle for recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia / José Antonio Lucero -- Cash transfers for older people reduce poverty and inequality / Armando Barrientos -- Mineral wealth, conflict, and equitable development / Michael L. Ross -- Spain: development, democracy, and equity / Carles Boix.

Subject Term:

Income distribution.

Institutional economics.

Income distribution -- Cross-cultural studies.

Equality.

Poverty.

Added Author:

Bebbington, Anthony, 1962-

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Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experience stagnating or increasing inequality, and that inequality can itself limit the poverty reducing effects of growth. Indeed, recent work indicates that, in addition to its intrinsic value, equity should be valued for its positive impacts on growth and the poverty-reducing effects of such growth.These concerns are coupled with questions of governance. This is because institutional arrangements affect not only overall rates of growth but also the distributional effects of growth, and are themselves more or less equitable in their structure and functioning. How given institutional arrangements emerge over time, with their implications for growth and equity, remains less understood.'Institutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps' tackles the relationship between equity and development, the place of institutions in determining these relationships, and the conditions under which particular institutional arrangements can either block or promote transitions toward more equitable forms of development. The chapters, originally commissioned as background documents for the preparation of the World Development Report 2006, are prepared by leading scholars from the fields of economics, political science, sociology, geography, and development studies.The book speaks directly to current discussions on inequality, poverty, and growth and will contribute to the construction of a historically informed political economy of development. The book specifically highlights the importance of inequality, institutional change through social mobilization, and institutional change through state policies. The authors show that, under certain conditions, state institutions can and have taken a leading role in promoting policies to redress inequitable social relations and so weaken the social foundations of inequality traps.