Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty

GIORGIO BARBA NAVARETTI Professor of Economics at the University of Milan, Italy, Director of the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences of the University of Milan and Scientific Director of the Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, ItalyGRAHAM K. BROWN Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Development at the Department of Economics and International Development of the University of Bath, UK, and Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford, UKGIOVANNI ANDREA CORNIA Professor of Development Economics in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Florence, ItalySÉVERINE DENEULIN Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath, UKGIANFRANCO DE SIMONE economist at Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, ItalyBARBARA HARRISS-WHITE Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oxford, UKYANJING HUANG former MA student at Yale University, USAMALLORY IRONS analyst in public finance at an investment banking firm in New York City, USAARNIM LANGER Research Officer in Economics and Politics, West Africa, at the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford, UKBRUNO MARTORANO PhD candidate at the University of Florence, ItalyTHANDIKA MKANDAWIRE Professor of African Development at the London School of Economics, UKABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA University Lecturer in African Politics at the University of Oxford, UK, andKirk-Greene Fellow in African studies at St Antony's College, UKGIANLUCA OREFICE PhD student in Economics at the University of Milan, ItalyGUSTAV RANIS Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale University, USASUNALI ROHRA heads external relations for a leading management consulting firm in IndiaANGELICA SALVI Fellow at the Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, ItalyNIGEL SINGH producer for the BBC and Channel Four, UKJOHN TOYE Chair of the Advisory Council of the Oxford Department of International Development, UKUKOHA UKIWO lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

• PART I: INTRODUCTION Presenting the Book; V.FitzGerald, J.Heyer & R.Thorp Social Wellbeing and Conflict: Themes from the Work of Frances Stewart; J.Toye PART II: TECHNICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Technology Change: Sources and Impediments; G.Ranis & M.Irons Migration and Productivity Patterns in European Regions; G.B.Navaretti, G.De Simone, G.Orefice & A.Salvi Revisiting Technology and Underdevelopment: Climate Change, Politics and the 'D' of Solar Energy Technology in Contemporary India; B.Harriss-White, S.Rohra & N.Singh PART III: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY Advancing Human Development: Values, Groups, Power and Conflict; S.Deneulin Welfare Regimes and Economic Development: Bridging the Conceptual Gap; T.Mkandawire Democracy, the New Left and Income Distribution: Latin America over the last Decade; G.A.Cornia & B.Martorano PART IV: CONFLICT, ETHNICITY AND INEQUALITY Understanding Horizontal Inequalities: the Role of Civil Society; G.K.Brown Horizontal Inequalities and Militancy: The Case of Nigeria's Niger Delta; A.Langer & U.Ukiwo Seeking Representativeness: Affirmative Action in Nigeria and South Africa Compared; A.R.Mustapha Frances Stewart: A Selected Bibliography