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This text provides an introduction to key concepts, current research findings, and theories in social inequality. While focusing primarily on social class, it also deals broadly with other forms of social inequality, including racial/ethnic, gender, and political. In dealing with the various dimensions of inequality, the book explains how they overlap and interrelate

Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles. From Thomas Piketty to Robert Putnam, there is no shortage of economic, sociological, or political analyses. But what does anthropology, with its focus on the qualitative character of relationships between people, have to offer? Drawing on current scholarship and illustrative ethnographic case studies, McGill argues that anthropology is particularly well suited to interrogating global inequality, not just within nations, but across nations as well. Brief, accessibly written, and peppered with vivid ethnographic examples that bring contemporary research to life, Global Inequality is an introduction to the topic from a unique and important perspective

Health, Inequality and Development -- Achieving Better Health in Developing Countries-- M.McGillivray, I.Dutta & D.Lawson Measurement and Explanation of Inequality in Health and Healthcare in Low-Income Settings-- E.van Doorslaer & O.O'Donnell Global Inequality in Health: Disparities in Human Longevity among Countries-- M.McGillivray Determinants of Child Weight and Height in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach-- H.Aturupane, A.B.Deolalikar & D.Gunewardena Environmental Determinants of Child Mortality in Kenya-- C.J.Mutunga How Growth and Related Instabilities Lower Child Survival-- P.Guillaumont, C.Korachais & J.Subervie Intra-Household Arrangements and Adult Health Satisfaction: Evidence from Mexico-- M.Rojas Individual and Collective Resources and Women's Health in Morocco-- M.C.Martin Health and Female Labour Market Participation: The Case of Uganda-- S.Bridges & D.Lawson

Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than sevenfold to over two million people, including vastly disproportionate numbers of minorities and people with little education. For some racial and educational groups, incarceration has become a depressingly regular experience, and prison culture and influence pervade their communities. Almost 60 percent of black male high school dropouts in their early thirties have spent time in prison. In Punishment and Inequality in America, sociologist Bruce Western explores the recent era of mass incarceration and the serious social and economic consequences it has wrought. Punishment and Inequality in America dispels many of the myths about the relationships among crime, imprisonment, and inequality. While many people support the increase in incarceration because of reductions in crime in the 1990s, Western shows that the swelling prison population only explains one-tenth of the fall in crime, and has come at a significant cost. Punishment and Inequality in America reveals a strong relationship between incarceration and severely dampened economic prospects for former inmates

Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Inequality in Germany and the US: An Introductory Note -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Some Data -- 2.1 Income Inequality -- 2.2 Wealth Inequality -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Assessing Public Spending Efficiency in 20 OECD Countries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature -- 3 Methodology and Data -- 3.1 Public Sector Performance (PSE) -- 3.2 Public Sector Efficiency -- 3.3 Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- 4 Empirical Analysis -- 4.1 Public Sector Performance -- 4.2 Public Sector Efficiency (PSE) -- 4.3 Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Government Debt, Fiscal Rules and Singular Growth Dynamics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Model -- 2.1 Endogenous Debt Adjustment -- 2.2 The DGE in Detrended Variables -- 3 Local Analysis -- 3.1 Impasse-Surface -- 3.2 Balanced Growth Paths and Local Dynamics -- 4 Equilibrium Dynamics -- 4.1 Multiple Over-Determined BGP's -- 4.2 Determinate BGP's -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix: Proofs -- References -- Financial Liberalization, Inequality and Inclusion in Low-Income Countries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Data Description -- 3.1 Measuring Income Inequality -- 3.2 Measuring Capital Account Openness -- 3.3 Identification Strategy -- 4 Methodology -- 4.1 The Baseline -- 4.2 Mechanisms: Financial Development and Inclusion -- 5 Results -- 5.1 The Baseline -- 5.1.1 Baseline Results -- 5.1.2 Robustness Check with Local Projection Method -- 5.1.3 Difference Between Equity, Bond and FDI Liberalization -- 5.2 Mechanisms: Financial Development and Inclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix: Data Appendix -- Current Account Openness Index -- Regulation Reform -- Macroeconomic Variables -- Redistributive Policies -- Credit Market Freedom Indicator -- Financial Inclusion -- References -- On (Non-)Neutrality of Public Debt in Growing Economies

A woman is a basic unit of the society. Women play many roles in their life such as a mother, a sister, a daughter and a wife. Education plays an important role in uplift standard of living as well as nutritional and health status of women. After Independence, Indian government take different steps to provide education to women and girl children. As a result, women's literacy rate has grown up. The objectives of the paper are to examine trends in literacy rates by sex and status of women in Haryana and to examine gender gap in education in Haryana. The present paper is based on secondary data. The finding of the paper reveals that literacy rate in Haryana during the year 1971 was 26.89 percent which steadily increased and reached to 75.6 percent by 2011, showing increasing trends. There is high gender gap at all levels of education in the year 1966-67. After that it is decreasing and fluctuating also at all levels of education in Haryana.

This Commentary examines the link between monetary policy and income and wealth inequality by reviewing the theoretical channels that have been proposed and examining the empirical evidence on their importance. The analysis suggests that the magnitude of any redistributive consequences of conventional monetary policy seems to be small. Evidence that unconventional monetary policies have led to increases in inequality is still inconclusive.