Growth and inequality the contrasting trajectories of India and Brazil
Examines inequality in overall distributions of income and expenditure, and disparities across gender, region, caste, race, and access to education.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press
[2017]
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39869532*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Growth and Inequality; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Graphs and Maps; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Brazil and India: A Mirror Image of Each Other?; 2. Approach and Method; 3. Brazil and India in the Decades before 1980; 3.1 Political Context, Social Environment, and Growth Regimes; 3.1.1 The point of departure; 3.1.2 Political context and economic strategy; 3.1.3 Growth regimes in Brazil and India; The period up to the mid-1960s; The mid-1960s to 1980; 3.1.4 Dynamics of growth and inequality; 3.2 Macroeconomic Patterns and Outcomes.
- 3.2.1 The growth of GDP3.2.2 Capital accumulation and the pattern of final demand; 3.2.3 The sectoral composition of output and employment; The structure of employment; 3.2.4 Inequality and poverty; 3.3 Labour Market Structure and Labour Institutions; 3.3.1 Labour market structures; 3.3.2 Labour institutions; 3.3.3 Labour relations and the role of trade unions; 3.4 The State, Social Policies and Inequality; 3.4.1 Social protection and redistribution; 3.4.2 Education, health, and other social services; 4. India and Brazil from 1980 until 2014.
- 4.1 Political Context, Economic Policies, and Growth Regime4.1.1 Political context and the State; 4.1.2 Economic liberalization; 4.1.3 Labour and the agrarian structure; 4.1.4 The overall pattern of growth and distribution; 4.2 Macroeconomic Patterns and Outcomes; 4.2.1 The growth of GDP; 4.2.2 Capital accumulation and the pattern of final demand; 4.2.3 The sectoral composition of output and employment; 4.2.4 Inequality and poverty; 4.3 Labour Market Structure and Labour Institutions; 4.3.1 Structural changes in the labour market; 4.3.2 Wage and income differentials.
- 4.3.3 Changes in labour institutionsThe broad institutional framework; Minimum wages; Other labour market institutions and policies with a bearing on inequality; 4.3.4 Summing up; 4.4 The State, Social Policies and Inequality; 4.4.1 The context; 4.4.2 Public sector expenditure on social policy; 4.4.3 Social security and social transfers; 4.4.4 Labour market policy; 4.4.5 Education and health; Education; Health; 4.4.6 Summing up; 5. Key Divides and Cleavages: Ruptures, Continuities, or Adaptation?; 5.1 Gender Inequality and the Labour Market Insertion of Women.
- 5.1.1 Four factors impinging on female labour force participationFertility; Urbanization; Educational attainment; Care regime; 5.1.2 Labour force participation; Unemployment; 5.1.3 Sectoral structure of employment; 5.1.4 Work and employment status; 5.1.5 Wages; Wage distribution; Decomposing wage inequality by sex; 5.1.6 Conclusion; 5.2 Regional Inequality; 5.2.1 Introduction; 5.2.2 The pattern of regional inequality; 5.2.3 Regional dynamics, growth regimes, and inequality; 5.2.4 Regional factors in the decomposition of wage inequality; 5.2.5 Final remarks; Annex: Regional Clusters in India.
