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Wealth Inequality and Elites in the Global South

Perspectives from Brazil, India, and South Africa

Av Aroop Chatterjee, Surinder S. Jodhka, Lena Lavinas, Vamsi Vakulabharanam

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Wealth inequality is both extreme and persistent across much of the world, yet it remains poorly understood relative to income inequality and poverty alleviation. Bringing together original research on Brazil, India, and South Africa, this volume examines the processes through which elite groups accumulate and maintain disproportionate control over assets - through historically embedded social hierarchies, institutional arrangements, and political–economic processes. These middle-income, semi-industrialised societies combine extreme wealth with persistent poverty, making them revealing sites for analysing how inequality is actively produced, not merely inherited.Across nine chapters, the book traces the historical formation of wealth shaped by colonial legacies, racial and caste hierarchies, land regimes, and state formation, before analysing contemporary processes of elite continuities and reproduction. These include financialisation, asset ownership, legal and regulatory frameworks, urban development, and corporate control. Rather than treating elites as a numerical category (the “top 1%”), the contributors analyse elites as historically constituted and institutionally embedded actors whose wealth and power are produced within existing accumulation regimes, and who in turn act to stabilise, adapt, and extend those regimes over time.The volume develops a relational, comparative political economy of wealth inequality, showing that processes illuminated in the Global South also deepen analysis of wealth concentration globally. It will interest scholars and advanced students in development studies, political economy, sociology, economics, law, and global studies.
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Aroop Chatterjee was the principal investigator of the Wealth Inequality and Elites in the global South project. He is a Researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. He leads the research agenda on wealth inequality at SCIS. Research interests include wealth inequality, economic elites, and political economy. He has an MSc Development Economics with distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies, a BSc Economics from the University College London.Surinder S. Jodhka was the co-lead of the India segment of the research project. He has taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the University of Hyderabad, and Panjab University. He researches social inequalities with focus on caste in contemporary times, agrarian change, and the political sociology of community identities. He has authored/edited 20 books and published more than 100 papers. He is the recipient of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists 2012 and the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contribution to Development Studies 2024.Lena Lavinas was the lead coordinator of the Brazil research. She is a full professor at the Institute of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and her research examines how welfare regimes adjust to changes in contemporary capitalism under the aegis of financialization. Her latest book was The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization: The Brazilian paradox (2017).Vamsi Vakulabharanam was the co-lead of the India segment of the research project. He is with the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Economics Faculty), has written books and articles on: Inequality in India and China; Development and Diversity of Cities through axes like gender, caste, and religion; and agrarian change; and he was awarded the Amartya Sen award by the ICSSR in 2013.

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