Institutional pathways to equity : addressing inequality traps / edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Anis A. Dani, Arjan De Haan & Michael Walton - Washington, DC : World Bank (WB) , 2008 - xxi, 255p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - New frontiers of social policy .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inequalities and development: dysfunctions, traps and transitions / Anthony J. Bebbington ... [et al.] -- Inequality traps and institutionalized inequities -- Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced? / Rachel Sabates-Wheeler -- Beneath the categories: power relations and inequalities in Uganda / Joy M. Moncrieffe -- Inequalities within India's poorest regions: why do the same institutions work differently in different places? / Arjan de Haan -- Institutional transitions and pathways towards equity -- Indigenous political voice and the struggle for recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia / José Antonio Lucero -- Cash transfers for older people reduce poverty and inequality / Armando Barrientos -- Mineral wealth, conflict, and equitable development / Michael L. Ross -- Spain: development, democracy, and equity / Carles Boix.

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Income distribution
Institutional economics
Income distribution--Cross-cultural studies
Equality
Poverty

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