Inequality in the Developing World

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public an...

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Other Authors: Gradín, Carlos (Editor), Leibbrandt, Murray (Editor), Tarp, Finn (Editor)
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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2021
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