Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality

Peter A G Van Bergeijk and Rolph Van Der Hoeven (eds)

ISBN 10: 1788110277 / ISBN 13: 9781788110273

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2017

About this Item

Increasing income inequality in developing countries is threatening sustainable development in those countries; sand that's before mentioning climate change or the Tory right-wing cuts to Britain's overseas aid budget in 2021. Edited by Dutch academics, the volume brings together international experts to explore the problem. 226 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £6.60.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788110277
• ISBN 13: 9781788110273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

This timely book documents and analyses the seriousness of growing national inequality in different regions around the world. It argues that the treatment of inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is wholly insufficient due to their failure to recognise the growing difference between the income of work and the income of capital and the super rich, and the strain this places on a country's social fabric.

Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality provides a critical view on how inequality is dealt with in the process of setting global goals. It reviews the development of inequality globally and the various processes leading up to formulation of the SDGs. With chapters from top researchers on inequality and development economics it provides a strong and unique intellectual basis for a more prominent treatment of inequality in the follow up process to the SDGs.

Combining a global perspective and in-depth regional analysis, this book will be of interest to students and academics in sustainable development, social policy and development economics.

Contributors include: T. Addison, A. Cornia, P. Edward, R. Jolly, M. Luebker, D. Nayyar, A. Sumner, P.A.G. van Bergeijk, R. van der Hoeven, J. Vandemoortele, R. Vos

About the Author

Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Professor of International Economics and Macroeconomics and Rolph van der Hoeven, Professor Emeritus of Employment and Development Economics, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, the Netherlands