Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict

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.

• 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