The world is not flat inequality and injustice in our global economy - Birdsall, Nancy; World Institute for Development Economics Research (Helsinki UNU/WIDER, 2006)
PART I, INEQUALITY WITHIN COUNTRIES : WHY IT MATTERS FOR DEVELOPMENT. 1.1 Inequality can stall growth : textbook economics versus market and government failures. 1.2 Inequality tends to undermine good public policy. 1.3 Inequality tends to inhibit effective collective decisionmaking -- PART II, GLOBALIZATION IS DISEQUALIZING. 2.1 Recent trends of global inequality. 2.2 Disequalizing globalization : three reasons -- CONCLUSION : MANAGING GLOBALIZATION. 3.1 A global social contract. 3.2 Addressing global market failures. 3.3 Just global rules and full and fair implementation.
"October 2005" -- front cover
Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-46).
Keywords: Economic development; Social justice; Globalization -- Economic aspects; Poverty; Income distribution