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3 - Constraints on Economic Inequality: Comparing Canada and the United States

from Part I - Conceptualizing and Measuring Human Rights and Economic Inequalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2021

By
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Edited by
Gillian MacNaughton ,
Diane Frey  and
Catherine Porter
Gillian MacNaughton
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Diane Frey
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University
Catherine Porter
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
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Summary

Much evidence shows that economic inequality within States has increased dramatically during the current round of globalization, since about 1980. This has occurred even as the level of absolute poverty has significantly declined, as has inequality among States I and among individuals worldwide (Bourguignon 2015; Milanovic 2016). Yet the effect of economic inequality on economic and social human rights varies across States.

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Human Rights and Economic Inequalities , pp. 63 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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