Dimensions of Inequality

This open access book offers a balanced, readable introduction to key topics around inequality across the globe. It indicates the broad range of measures necessary to understand and address inequality, and it shows how individuals around the world perceive and act on inequality in different ways. In so doing, it shares fundamental knowledge and resources necessary for further progress towards UN Sustainable Development Goal 10, "Reduced Inequalities," as well as towards UN SDG 16, "Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions". The book not only presents wide-ranging syntheses of relevant scholarly literature, but also provides new findings from @EQUAL, a large consortium project partnering research institutions across the Global North and Global South. Using plenty of illustrative examples from the Global South in particular-including from Colombia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, and Vietnam-each chapter addresses a key question or set of questions around inequality. Each provides suggestions for further reading, while an appendix at the end of the book summarizes key research publications from @EQUAL and related sources. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.