Böcker i Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being-serien

The "Arab Spring" events unfolding in southern Mediterranean countries show that multiple deprivations may be powerful drivers of political instability. This book probes the effects of poverty and exclusion, both long-term and in light of current upheaval.

Public spending on infrastructure plays an important role in promoting economic growth and poverty alleviation. In that context, the financing of infrastructure has been a critical element of most economic growth and poverty reduction strategies in developing countries, since the start of this millennium.

This book studies the evolution of the middle class in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. The first part of the book is devoted to a discussion of the concept of middle class and a description of the economic situation in Russia during the transition period.

This book maps the latest developments in the policy relevant analysis on poverty, inclusion and the social agenda in the Western Balkans.

This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. The studies highlighted in this volume are grouped into the following four research areas: child poverty and malnutrition, dynamics and determinants of poverty, multidimensional measures of poverty, and energy-environment-poverty relationships.

This book offers a collection of original, state-of-the-art essays addressing various aspects of the economic analysis of inequality, deprivation, poverty measurement and social polarization, at both the theoretical and empirical level.

This volume examines the relationship between trade liberalization policies and income inequality in developing countries. Using survey data for 54 developing countries, the book explores the potential trade-off between the gains from trade and the distribution of those gains and provides a quantification of the inequality-adjusted welfare gains from trade. The book begins with an introduction to the model and its methodology. Chapter 2 sets up the model and derives the formulas for the welfare e¿ects of trade policy. Chapter 3 uses the tari¿ data and the survey data to estimate those welfare e¿ects in 54 countries. Chapter 4 discusses the gains from trade and their distribution. Chapter 5 evaluates and quanti¿es the trade-ö between income gains and inequality costs of trade. Chapter 6 presents robustness tests and results from alternative models of the impacts of trade. The last chapter reviews the Household Impacts of Trade database and dashboard, which provides datafor replication and a platform that allows researchers to simulate agricultural tari¿ policy shocks. Providing a comprehensive empirical analysis of the effects of trade policy on inequality in developing countries, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of economic inequality, development, and international trade as well as policymakers interested in the inequality and poverty consequences of trade policy.