The subject of this essay is formed from three classic pieces of writing: The End of Laissez-Faire by John Maynard Keynes, The End of History? by Francis Fukuyama, and The Structure of Scientific Revo...
On 07 Sep 2015 The informal economy comprises those economic activities which are beyond the purview of the state because they lie outside its framework of laws, regulations and protections. A small proportion of th...
On 13 Aug 2014 The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analysed evidence on the extent of spatial inequalities within developing countries. The studies find that spatial...
On 15 Jun 2011 This paper offers a conceptualisation of social security and income redistribution schemes which highlights the strong overlaps between the two. Indeed, it is virtually impossible to disentangle the t...
On 27 Jan 2011 This paper constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in
China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of
inequality in the last fifty...
On 17 Jan 2011 Before we can assess where we are with the MDG Process, we need to be clear about what the objectives are of setting the MDGs and the MDG Process. In order to do this, two fundamental questions need t...
On 21 Sep 2010 The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions l...
On 02 Jun 2009 History matters, and it matters in important and interesting ways for policy
today. But it is not just actual events in the past. It is how they are recorded, interpreted,
and the interpretation...
On 22 Apr 2009 What exactly is 'economic marginalization'? How should one conceptualize it, and what are the implications of such conceptualization? Economic marginalization can be conceptualized as outcome or as p...
On 05 Jul 2007 This note considers income distribution at two points in time where the population has also changed in some way, constructing three scenarios—population growth, population decline, and a constant popu...
On 04 Dec 2006 In this note we approach the question of relative poverty from a different angle. Fixing the poverty line, we ask: What is the extent of poverty relative to the resources available in the society to e...
On 01 Dec 2006 There is a glaring paradox in all commonly used measures of poverty.
The death of a poor person, because of poverty, reduces poverty according
to these measures. This surely violates our basic intui...
On 27 Nov 2006 Tignor’s book attempts to give us the measure of the man in his professional life,
with enough insight into personal development to help in this task. Lewis comes across as a man of brilliant insight...
On 27 Sep 2006 While Asia’s success in growth and poverty reduction is to be greatly welcomed, and should be analysed for the lessons it has for other countries, the policy discourse should take on board three key p...
On 21 Apr 2006 So what’s social policy got to do with economic growth? Quite a lot, it would appear, if one takes the results of cross-country growth regressions at face value, as they are by many social policy anal...
On 03 Feb 2006 Spatial inequality is a dimension of overall inequality, but it has added significance when spatial and regional divisions align with political and ethnic tensions to undermine social and political st...
On 17 Sep 2005 This essay, the text of a public lecture as V.K.R.V. Rao Chair Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, examines the evolution of thinking on development and development policy, with...
On 03 Sep 2005 This essay examines the evolution of thinking on development and development policy, with a special focus on economic issues, in the last fifty years. In particular, it explores the interaction betwee...
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