Contents:
1. The challenge to reduce income inequality (introduction and
overview)
Peter A.G. van Bergeijk and Rolph van der Hoeven
2. Broadening the development agenda for the SDG world
Richard Jolly
3. From MDGs to SDGs: critical reflections on global targets and
their measurement
Jan Vandemoortele
4. From billions to trillions: towards reform of development
finance and the global reserve system
Rob Vos
5. Global inequality and global poverty since the Cold War: how
robust is the optimistic narrative?
Peter Edward and Andy Sumner
6. Is Latin America’s recent inequality decline permanent or
temporary?
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
7. Thirty years in Africa’s development: from structural adjustment
to structural transformation?
Tony Addison
8. Poverty, employment and inequality in the SDGs: heterodox
discourse, orthodox policies?
Malte Luebker
9. Can catch up reduce inequality?
Deepak Nayyar
10. Can the SDGs stem rising income inequality in the world?
Rolph van der Hoeven
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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
'The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations have set
the most ambitious development agenda in history. For the first
time, income inequality was included as a specific goal, and one
that is essential to stem one of the worst trends that the world
has been experiencing in recent decades. Ambitious political
efforts will be needed to reverse this trend because without
equality the inclusive and transformative development that the SDGs
have set cannot be achieved. Providing accessible analysis and
evidence-based policy advice, Sustainable Development Goals and
Income Inequality is a must read for development researchers and
practitioners, politicians and concerned citizens alike.'
--Jose Antonio Ocampo, Member of the Central Bank Board of
Colombia, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social
Affairs'Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality is a
timely book. It discusses causes and consequences of the
unprecedented rise of income inequality, and especially functional
income inequality, over the last twenty years in developing
countries. It demonstrates that the Sustainable Development Goals
adopted in 2015, though acknowledging the inequality problem,
provide only weak recommendations to stem this growing inequality.
In this easily accessible book, well-known scholars thoroughly
analyse and discuss policy alternatives for a more equal and
transformative development process and portray what citizens and
governments can do to achieve that.'
--Thandika Mkandawire, London School of Economics, former Director,
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
(UNRISD)'This book puts the post-2015 sustainable development
agenda in thought-provoking perspective. The two editors and an
expert group of leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of
economic development take the reader on a most stimulating voyage
into the realm of the MDGs and the SDGs. They pointedly ask whether
the SDGs have the potential to address the thorny issues of
inclusiveness in implementation, manageability, appropriate
measurement and financial planning. The book departs from the need
for transformative development and zooms in on the vast challenge
of income inequality. A timely and much-needed contribution.'
--Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER
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