Equity And Development: Berlin Workshop Series 2006 (Berlin Workshop)

✍ Scribed by Gudrun Kochendorfer-Lucius, Boris Pleskovic

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Berlin Workshop Series 2006 presents selected papers from meetings held in September 6 ? 8, 2004, at the 7th Annual Forum co-hosted by InWEnt and the World Bank in preparation for the Bank?s World Development Report. At the 2004 meetings, key researchers and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries met to identify and brainstorm on equity and development challenges and successes that will be later examined in-depth in the World Development Report 2006. This volume presents papers from the sessions on Equity and Development, covering issues relating to The Role of Governments in the Promotion of Equity, Equity-Enhancing Social Transformations, Building Efficient Welfare States, Reducing Global Inequalities and Integration and Inequality in the New Europe.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 7
ABOUT THIS BOOK......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
OPENING ADDRESS......Page 17
OPENING ADDRESS Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Development......Page 21
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Distribution, Equity, and Development......Page 39
What Is Equity? What Is the Role for Governments in the Promotion of Equity? Does the Role Differ between Developed and Developing Countries?......Page 47
Promoting Equity through Social Cohesion: The Council of Europe Strategy......Page 49
Equality of Opportunity and Other Equity Principles in the Context of Developing Countries......Page 63
What Is Equity?......Page 79
Should Poor People Care about Inequality?......Page 89
Equity-Enhancing Social Transformation: Historical Evidence from Europe and Transition Countries......Page 103
Inequality and Political Regimes......Page 105
Income Inequality, Economic Transformation, and Growth in Russia......Page 123
Justice and Transition......Page 137
Building Efficient Welfare States: Lessons Learned......Page 157
Welfare State, Redistribution, Growth, and Poverty Reduction......Page 159
Global Inequalities: What Can Be Done to Reduce International Inequities?......Page 173
Rights-Based Development......Page 175
Rising Labor Force Participation as a Source of Pro-Poor Growth......Page 183
What Will Greater Integration Mean for Inequalities between and within the Richer and Poorer Countries of the “New Europe”?......Page 199
Social Solidarity in an Expanding Europe......Page 201
Integration and Inequality in the EU Accession Countries......Page 207
Appendix 1: Programme......Page 213
Appendix 2: Participants......Page 219