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Rethinking inequality in Arab countries : overview
The Rethinking Inequality in Arab States report fills knowledge gaps about inequality in the Arab region, using a multidimensional approach that focuses on non-income dimensions: Health, education and living conditions. A primary motivation for this study has been the availability of harmonized household data following the Arab Multidimensional Poverty report (ESCWA et al, 2017) and that provides a unique opportunity to examine trends in outcome and opportunity inequalities between selected social, economic, spatial and demographic groups (rich and poor, men and women, rural and urban, educated and non-educated, etc.). After providing a thorough assessment of inequalities, of outcomes and of opportunities, the report provides an in-depth analysis on the drivers of inequality including poor economic structures, poor governance and rentierism. It also provides some policy and further research considerations.
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Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean' introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin America over a decade. An innovative Human Opportunity Index and other parametric and non-parametric techniques are presented for quantifying inequality based on circumstances exogenous to individual efforts. These methods are applied to gauge inequality of opportunities in access to basic services for children, learning achievement for youth, and income and consumption for adults.
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Inequality in Britain
\"This book provides a thorough and engaging analysis of inequality in Britain, including its long-term development and transformation since the beginning of the 20th century. The author argues that inequality is not what it used to be - no longer can policy makers consider it just in terms of status, wealth and income. Having resurfaced strongly as an issue after the financial crisis of 2007-8, a truly informed discussion of inequality must now be wide ranging and take account of a variety of interacting factors. They include both a radically different role for education in the labour market and the interests of future generations. Government policies, market failures and fundamental changes in British society and economy in earlier decades have all contributed to inequality's contemporary scope, intensity, and who it affects. Alan Ware traces and illuminates the altered nature of inequality in Britain, its consequences, and especially its political implications. It offers a timely, concise and illuminating examination that will be of interest to all those concerned about inequality and, more broadly, to scholars and students of sociology, social/public policy, contemporary British history, political sociology, and political theory\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hardy–Littlewood and Ulyanov inequalities
We give the full solution of the following problem: obtain sharp inequalities between the moduli of smoothness
The main tool is the new
Hardy–Littlewood–Nikol’skii inequalities. More precisely, we obtained the asymptotic behavior of the quantity
We also prove the
Ulyanov and Kolyada-type inequalities in the Hardy spaces. Finally, we apply the obtained estimates to derive new embedding theorems for
the Lipschitz and Besov spaces.
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Pragmatic Philanthropy : Asian Charity Explained
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This cutting edge text considers how Asian philanthropists and charitable organizations break with Western philanthropic traditions and examines the key traits and trends that make social investment in Asia unique. Based on 30 case studies of excellent social delivery organizations (SDOs) and social enterprises as well as interviews with ultra-high net-worth individuals throughout Asia, this book examines which characteristics and strategies lead to successful philanthropy and social delivery organizations. Providing evidence based findings on philanthropy, social investment and social delivery organizations in Asia, this book provides invaluable resources for those wishing to deepen their understanding of the sector and what this means for political and economic development in the region.
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Poverty-Inequality-GDP Nexus and Social Grants: Implications for SDGs in South Africa
The policy framework in many emerging economies is based on the triangular concerns of poverty, inequality, and economic growth. In this case, social protection and grants serve as efficient means of providing welfare packages to the public. Nonetheless, South Africa still has one of the most unequal socioeconomic structures in the world, despite the social grant system. This study focuses on the dynamic trend of poverty, inequality, and GDP, which is crucial to the attainment of SDG objectives in South Africa. The instrument of estimation is the ARIMA principle using data spanning 1990 - 2020 for prognosis. The study forecasts that between the present and 2050, poverty and inequality would rise, but more slowly. The policy implication is that a concerted effort through policy re-appraisal and review that will change the nature of rural and township life and allow people to move from a high level of poverty and inequality to a better life-changing status is recommended.
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Adaptación Española de la Escala de Apoyo a la Desigualdad Económica (S-SEIS)
Background: This study presents the adaptation and evidence of the validity of the Spanish version of the Support for Economic Inequality Scale (S-SEIS). This measure evaluates people’s tendency to have positive attitudes toward economic inequality. Method: Two correlational studies were conducted, one exploratory (N = 619) and one confirmatory (N = 562). Results: S-SEIS showed good reliability in both studies. The factorial analysis showed a one-factor structure in Study 1 that was confirmed in Study 2. We also found a relationship between S-SEIS and other extensively used measures of attitudes toward inequality, such as intolerance toward inequality. S-SEIS positively correlates with belief in a just world, social dominance orientation (SDO), economic system justification (ESJ), institutional trust, and perceived democracy; it correlates negatively with intolerance toward inequality, perceived inequality, perceived warmth/competence of people in poverty and support for redistribution. Conclusions: The current research findings suggest that S-SEIS is a valuable instrument for evaluating the support of economic inequality in Spanish samples.
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On existence of minimizers for weighted Lp-Hardy inequalities on C1,γ-domains with compact boundary
Let p∈(1,∞), α∈R, and Ω⊊RN be a C1,γ-domain with a compact boundary ∂Ω, where γ∈(0,1]. Denote by δΩ(x) the distance of a point x∈Ω to ∂Ω. Let W 01,p;α(Ω) be the closure of Cc∞(Ω) in W 1,p;α(Ω), whereW 1,p;α(Ω):={φ∈Wloc1,p(Ω):(∥∣∇φ∣∥Lp(Ω;δΩ−α)p+∥φ∥Lp(Ω;δΩ−(α+p))p)<∞}.We study the following two variational constants: the weighted Hardy constantHα,p(Ω):=inf{∫Ω∣∇φ∣pδΩ−αdx:∫Ω∣φ∣pδΩ−(α+p)dx=1,φ∈W 01,p;α(Ω)},and the weighted Hardy constant at infinityλα,p∞(Ω):=K⋐ΩsupWc1,p(Ω∖Kˉ)inf{∫Ω∖Kˉ∣∇φ∣pδΩ−αdx:∫Ω∖Kˉ∣φ∣pδΩ−(α+p)dx=1}.We show that Hα,p(Ω) is attained if and only if the spectral gap Γα,p(Ω):=λα,p∞(Ω)−Hα,p(Ω) is strictly positive. Moreover, we obtain tight decay estimates for the corresponding minimizers. Furthermore, when Ω is bounded and α+p=1, then λ1−p,p∞(Ω)=0 (no spectral gap) and the associated operator −Δ1−p,p is null-critical in Ω with respect to the weight δΩ−1, whereas, if α+p<1, then λα,p∞(Ω)= pα+p−1 p>0=Hα,p(Ω) (positive spectral gap) and −Δα,p is positive-critical in Ω with respect to the weight δΩ−(α+p).
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