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Combating poverty and inequality: structural change, social policy and politics
(United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2010)
Poverty reduction is a central feature of the international development agenda and contemporary poverty reduction strategies increasingly focus on “targeting the poor”, yet poverty and inequality remain intractable ...
Child Poverty and Inequality: New Perspectives
(2012)
The 21st century starts with vast inequalities for children in terms of income, access to food, water, health, education, housing, or employment for their families. Half of the world’s children are below the poverty line ...
Equity Action Framework
(2017)
Th e Equity Action Framework1 is designed to support individuals and groups that want to advance racial equity
in early childhood systems. Th e goal of a racial equity approach is to develop policies, practices, and ...
Reaching for Health Equity
(US CDC, 2016)
Group inequality and intersectionality
(E-Bulletin of the Human Development & Capability Association, 2014-07)
Intersectionality: Multiple Inequalities in Social Theory
(SAGE Journal, 2012-04)
The concept of intersectionality is reviewed and further developed for more effective use. Six dilemmas in the debates on the concept are disentangled, addressed and resolved: the distinction between structural and political ...
10 Best resources on… intersectionality with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries
(Health Policy and Planning, 2016-10-01)
Intersectionality has emerged as an important framework for understanding and responding to health inequities by making visible the fluid and interconnected structures of power that create them. It promotes an understanding ...
Perspectives on health equity and social determinants of health
(National Academy Of Medicine, 2017)
Social factors, signals, and biases shape the health of our nation. Racism and poverty manifest in unequal social, environmental, and economic conditions, resulting in deep-rooted health disparities that carry over from ...
Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts
(The New Yorker, 2014)
Health inequalities: critical perspectives
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
This section provides a brief summary of the main ways in which health in-equalities are conceptualized, particularly in terms of the indicators used to stratify health. It is by no means a comprehensive account but rather ...