Inequality, Growth, and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization

Giovanni Andrea Cornia is currently professor of economics at the University of Florence. Before this, he was the Director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) in Helsinki (1995-2000), and Director of the Economic and Social Policy Research Programme at the International Child Development Centre (the world-wide research centre of UNICEF) in Florence (1989-95). He was also the Chief Economist at UNICEF Headquarters in New York (1981-89) and held research positions at UNCTAD, UNECE (with a long spell at ECLAC in Santiago) and the Economic Studies Centre of FIAT.

• PART I: INCOME DISTRIBUTION TRENDS,THEORIES AND POLICIES ; 1. Inequality, Growth and Poverty: An Overview of Changes over the Last Two Decades ; 2. Income Distribution Changes and Their Impact in the Post-World War II period ; PART II: TRADITIONAL CAUSES OF INEQUALITY: STILL RELEVANT FOR EXPLAINING ITS RISE IN THE 1980S-90S? ; 3. Land Ownership Inequality and the Income Distribution Consequences of Economic Growth ; 4. Does Educational Achievement Help Explain Income Inequality? ; 5. Rural and Urban Income and Poverty: Does Convergence Between Sectors Offset Divergence within Them? ; PART III. RECENT FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME ; 6. Globalization, Technology and Income Inequality: A Critical Analysis ; 7. External Liberalization, Economic Performance and Distribution in Latin America and Elsewhere ; 8. Labour Market Institutions and Income Inequality: What are the New Insights after the Washington Consensus? ; 9. Increased Income Inequality in OECD Countries and the Redistributive Impact of the Government Budget ; 10. Income Distribution and Tax and Government Social Spending Policies in Developing Countries ; 11. The Impact of Adjustment Related Social Funds on Income Distribution and Poverty ; PART IV. COUNTRY CASE STUDIES ; 12. Reducing Poverty and Inequality in India: Has Liberalization Helped? ; 13. Factor Shares and Resource Booms: Accounting for the Evolution of Venezuelan Inequality ; 14. The Impact of Financial Liberalization and the Rise of Financial Rents on Income Inequality: The Case of Turkey ; 15. The Changing Nature of Inequality in South Africa ; 16. Growth, Structural Change and Inequality: The Experience of Thailand ; Index

... provides a systematic analysis of the changes in within-country income inequality over the last twenty years.