
World Social Science Report 2016
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Contents
Introduction and key messages
1. Social science challenges inequalities: general introduction, Françoise Caillods and Mathieu Denis
2. Challenging inequalities: pathways to a just world. Key messages and main contributions, Melissa Leach, John Gaventa, Patricia Justino, Françoise Caillods and Mathieu Denis
PART I • CURRENT TRENDS IN INEQUALITIES
3. Drivers and dynamics of inequalities worldwide(an introduction to Part I), Patricia Justino and Bruno Martorano
Chapter 1 • Inequalities: many intersecting dimensions
4. Global versus national inequality, François Bourguignon
5. Global inequality and the middle classes, Branko Milanovic
6. Wage and income inequality, Patrick Belser
7. Horizontal inequalities, Frances Stewart
8. ‘Leaving no one behind’: the challenge of intersecting inequalities, Naila Kabeer
9. Inequality and natural resources in Africa, James C. Murombedzi
10. Inequality in education: the challenge of measurement, Manos Antoninis, Marcos Delprato and Aaron Benavot
11. POSTCARD • The multiple forms of digital inequality, Ben Ramalingam and Kevin Hernandez
12. Untangling economic and political inequality: the case of South Africa, John Gaventa and Carin Runciman
13. Grounding justice and injustice, Ruth Fincher
14. Rising economic inequality and gender inequality: intersecting spheres of injustice, Shahra Razavi
Chapter 2 • Inequalities in different parts of the world
15. Recent changes in income inequality in China, Li Shi
16. Inequality in India: drivers and consequences, Jayati Ghosh
17. Social justice and equality/inequality issues in modern-day Russia, Natalia Grigorieva
18. Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: dimensions and drivers, Jimi O. Adesina
19. Inequalities in the Arab region, Adam Hanieh
20. The invisible hands of racial inequality in the USA, Fredrick C. Harris
21. Income inequality in Brazil: new evidence from combined tax and survey data, Marcelo Medeiros
PART II • THE CONSEQUENCES OF INEQUALITIES
22. Consequences and futures of inequalities (an introduction to Part II), John Gaventa
23. POSTCARD • Inequality: a historical issue within the United Nations System, Richard Jolly
Chapter 3 • Consequences and interactions of multiple inequalities
24. Economic growth and poverty reduction: the inequality connection, Ravi Kanbur
25. Inequality and political conflict, Gudrun Østby
26. POSTCARD • Perceived inequalities among Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees, Charles Harb
27. Inequality and sustainability, Melissa Leach
28. POSTCARD • Challenging intersecting inequalities around access to water, Tahseen Jafry, Blessings Chinsinga, Lilian Zimba and Ted Scanlon
29. Poverty and environmental inequality in India, Sunita Narain
30. Health and social justice in Egypt: towards a health equity perspective, Soha Bayoumi
31. POSTCARD • The Ebola crisis: inequality and distrust, Annie Wilkinson and Abu Brima
32. The spatial patterning of exposure to inequality and its social consequences in South Africa: work in progress, David McLennan
33. POSTCARD • Food rights and wrongs, Naomi Hossain
34. The role of aspirations in the exclusion of Peruvian indigenous children, Laure Pasquier- Doumer
35. POSTCARD • Social inequality and young people in Europe: their capacity to aspire, Evelyne Baillergeau and Jan Willem Duyvendak
36. POSTCARD • Consequences of inequality for persons with disabilities – experience of ADD International, Emma Cain
Chapter 4 • Inequality futures
37. Inequality, economic democracy and sustainability, Madeleine Power, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
38. Malaise in the Western middle classes, Louis Chauvel and Anne Hartung
39. BRICS and global inequality, Jing Gu, Alex Shankland, Anuradha Chenoy and Gerry Bloom
40. Inequalities and social progress in the future, Marc Fleurbaey and Stephan Klasen
41. Inequality in an increasingly automated world, Lizzie Sayer
42. POSTCARD • Digital connections in the face of inequality, Charles Onyango-Obbo
PART III • TRANSFORMATIVE RESPONSES, TRANSFORMATIVE PATHWAYS
43. Towards equality: transformative pathways (an introduction to Part III), Melissa Leach
Chapter 5 • Changing the rules
44. Labour market institutions and inequality, Janine Berg
45. Inequality and global social policy: policies, actors and strategies, Bob Deacon
46. The decline and recent uptick of income inequality in Latin America, 2002–13, Giovanni Andrea Cornia
47. Taxation and inequality: lessons from Latin America, Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaíni, Bruno Martorano and Dalmiro Morán
48. Global instruments for tackling inequality: the African experience, Adebayo O. Olukoshi
49. POSTCARD • Financial liberalization and global inequality, Stephany Griffith-Jones and E.A. Brett
50. POSTCARD • Could changes in the international tax system be a strategy for dealing with inequality? Mick Moore
51. A seat at the table is not enough: gender and political inclusion, Sohela Nazneen
52. POSTCARD • Land redistribution: opportunities and traps, Michael Lipton
53. Legal rights as instruments for challenging inequality, Celestine Nyamu Musembi
54. POSTCARD • Reducing Inequality through transformative institutional policies: the case of the industrial court of Nigeria, Caroline Joelle Nwabueze
55. Social protection, inequality and social justice, Keetie Roelen, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux
56. POSTCARD • Unconditional basic income, Erik Olin Wright
57. POSTCARD • Universal health coverage as a powerful social equalizer, Rüdiger Krech
58. Critical elements for ensuring the success of more inclusive social policies, Michael Woolcock
59. Inequality and corruption, Bo Rothstein
Chapter 6 • Mobilizing for change
60. Why social movements matter for addressing inequalities and ensuring social justice, Leandro Vergara-Camus
61. POSTCARD • Inequalities and protests, Isabel Ortiz
62. POSTCARD • Africa‘s uprisings: no end in sight, Zachariah Mampilly and Adam Branch
63. POSTCARD • Representing inequality: film, literature and the arts, Mike van Graan
64. Grassroots pathways for challenging social and political inequality, Alison Mathie with E. Alma, A. Ansorena, J. Basnet, Y. Ghore, S. Jarrín, J. Landry, N. Lee, B. von Lieres, V. Miller, M. de Montis, S. Nakazwe, S. Pal, B. Peters, R. Riyawala, V. Schreiber, M. A. Shariff, A. Tefera and N. Zulminarni
65. POSTCARD • Equality as a valued social norm, inequality as an injustice, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
66. A historical view of the politics of inequality, Duncan Green
67. POSTCARD • Rising extreme inequality is a concern for us all, Winnie Byanyima
PART IV • TRANSFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE FOR A JUST WORLD
68. A global research agenda on inequality for the next ten years
69. Knowledge divides: social science production on inequalities and social Justice, Françoise Caillods
70. The use of big data in the analysis of inequality, Mike Savage
71. Tax and legal havens: a priority for inequality research, Alain Deneault
72. POSTCARD • Increasing childhood equality in cities: a practical intervention through policy, research and advocacy, Alberto Minujin
73. POSTCARD • Local knowledge as a common good, Kemly Camacho Jiménez
74. POSTCARD • A proposal to monitor intersecting inequalities in the post-2015 Agenda, Deborah S. Rogers
ANNEXES
Annex A • Basic statistics on the production of social science research
Annex B • Bibliometric analysis of social and human science research into inequalities and social justice
Annex C • Acronyms
Annex D • Glossary