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Horizontal Inequality
"Remove the secondary causes that have produced the great convulsions of the world and you will almost always find the principle of inequality at the bottom. Either the poor have attempted to plunder the rich, or the rich to enslave the poor. If, then, a society can ever be founded in which everyman shall have something to keep and little to take from others, much will have been done for peace" (de Tocqueville 1835, quote from 1954 edition,: 266).
Inequality between culturally formed groups is a very important but often neglected dimension of development. A group’s relative performance in economic, social and political dimensions is an important source of individual welfare and could lead to serious political instability, and can be the source of violent conflict. This HDCA thematic group aims to provide a network for those who would like to advance research on horizontal inequality and emphasize this serious dimension of development while looking at it from a variety of social sciences angles including sociology, economics, and political science.
Topics include: determinants of horizontal inequality, conflict, the relationship between vertical and horizontal Inequality, the measurement of horizontal inequality, policies relating to group inequality, among others.
The Horizontal Inequality group was started by Frances Stewart and Zina Nimeh during the HDCA 2010 conference that was held in Amman. Frances Stewart and Zina Nimeh are advisers to the coordinators.
Coordinators:
Paola Ballon
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
paola_ballon@hotmail.com
Amanda Lenhard
Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom
a.lenhardt@odi.org.uk
Sepideh Yousefzadeh
University of Groningen, Netherlands
yousefzadeh.sepideh@gmail.com
Sepideh Yousefzadeh is a Post-doc Researcher at the University of Groningen. Her current research is on applying a Capability Approach to child growth and prior to her academic experience, she has been working with the UN and international NGOs.
Events
Past Events
Nov 19 2015 SEMINARIO SOBRE DESARROLLO HUMANO EN REGIONES TRANSFRONTERIZAS EDICION 2015
El Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, El Colegio de Sonora, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, El Colegio […]
Jul 2 2015 Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: Mini-Conference CfP
The overall subject of next year’s SASE conference is “Inequality in the 21st Century”. The German Socioeconomic Reporting Network (www.soeb.de) […]
Jul 22 2013 Fifth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality/ECINEQ (Bari, Italy)
Deadline for submission of complete papers: April 3, 2013 The ECINEQ Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the Fifth […]
News
Nov 15 2013In memoriam Gus Ranis
We note with much sadness the passing of Gus Ranis, an HDCA Fellow and valued member of the association for […]
Oct 30 2013Next activities of Horizontal Inequality TG
a) Panel for the next HDCA conference in Greece with a possible Special Issue for the Journal of Human Development […]