Global inequality, poverty and wealth

Yeates, Nicola (2008). Global inequality, poverty and wealth. In: Ridge, Tess and Wright, Sharon eds. Understanding inequality, poverty and wealth: Policies and prospects. Understanding welfare: Social issues, policy and practice. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, pp. 81–101.

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Abstract

This chapter
• Reviews the varied meanings of poverty and inequality in a global context
• Distinguishes between international and global measures of inequality;
• Examines current data on the distribution of income and wealth worldwide
• Shows that a very large section of the world’s wealth is concentrated in the top one tenth of one percent of the population

Item Type:	Book Chapter
ISBN:	1-86134-915-7, 978-1-86134-915-6
Keywords:	Global distribution gap; Global measures of wealth; inequality; Global poverty; Global social policy; Global wealth distribution; Global wealth inequality;
Academic Unit/Department:	Social Sciences > Social Policy and Criminology
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG)
Item ID:	13185
Depositing User:	Nicola Yeates
Date Deposited:	16 Feb 2009 09:26
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2010 20:20
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/13185

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