Dasandi, N;
(2014)
International Inequality and World Poverty: A Quantitative Structural Analysis.
New Political Economy
, 19
(2)
201 - 226.
10.1080/13563467.2013.779654.
![[thumbnail of 13563467%2E2013%2E779654.pdf]](https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF
13563467%2E2013%2E779654.pdf Available under License : See the attached licence file. Download (291kB) |
Abstract
Dominant explanations within the existing development literature for the differences in poverty levels around the world have tended to ignore the influence of international inequality on poverty, instead focusing solely on domestic factors. In this paper, I conduct a regression analysis of the effect of inequality between countries on world poverty between 1980 and 2007, employing a new structural measure of international inequality which is created using social network analysis to calculate countries' positions in international trade networks. Countries' infant mortality rates are used to measure poverty. The results of the empirical analysis provide cross-country evidence to demonstrate that structural inequalities in the international system have a significant impact on poverty around the world. As such, the analysis demonstrates the need to move beyond focusing exclusively on domestic attributes of developing countries towards considering the broader international political economy in analysing contemporary poverty.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | International Inequality and World Poverty: A Quantitative Structural Analysis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13563467.2013.779654 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2013.779654 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1467027 |
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
