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Changing the Conversation about Inequality

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Changing the Conversation about Inequality

September 2016

Social Inclusion
Pablo Beramendi, Duke University;

Tackling growing inequality in income distribution and wealth is a social challenge that demands an innovative approach. Academic Anthony B. Atkinson proposes 15 actions that combine old policies with new instruments.

Actions against inequality for improving children's social opportunities

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Actions against inequality for improving children's social opportunities

September 2016

Social Inclusion Education
Dr. Michael Pratt, Psychology Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario;

These two works analyse, from the angles of psychology and sociology respectively, the increase in social opportunities for underprivileged children. The first proposes acting on the environment and the second, on individual capabilities. 

Inequality in a converging world

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Inequality in a converging world

May 2016

Social Inclusion
Luis Guirola, PhD student in Political Science at Duke University;

Inequality as a phenomenon can be studied from a local, global or international perspective. Branko Milanovic integrates these three points of view in order to reflect on the effect of globalisation within this inequality.

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