Tackling Inequality through 'Responsible Development’

Veranstaltungsart
EADI General Conference 2014

Ort/Datum
Bonn, 25.06.2014

Veranstalter

European Association of Development Training and Research Institutes (EADI); German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)


The current poverty statistics highlight a shift in poverty from lower-income countries (LICs) to middle-income countries (MICs) with contested future trends. The concentration of poverty in fragile states is expected to intensify in the future. As the global scenery evolves towards a multilateral architecture with new and stronger voices from the developing world such as the ‘new’ middle class, addressing chronic and systemic causes of inequalities remains a significant challenge. This picture points out the need for a type of development that is not only inclusive of all actors but also seeks to explore how these ‘stronger voices’ will ‘responsibly’ influence patterns of growth and development.

Few studies have shed light on how emerging groups of successful entrepreneurs and civil servants are important to a society not only for employment creation but also a potential trigger of political change and democracy. Another important strand in the literature challenges these implicit progressive assumptions about the behaviour of the new middle class citizens and instead emphasizes a possible class struggle. These scholars perceive the new middle class as being a relatively conservative political force striving to distance itself as much as possible from ‘the poor’ both physically and ideologically. This plenary, investigated how the emerging middle class groups will change the policy environment in tackling inequality; the new forms of development cooperation; how they will mobilise and for what reasons; the role education will play in stimulating social change through instilling of values and knowledge for citizens to strive for social justice and ‘responsible development’.

Moderator:

  • Dirk Messner, Director of the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Professor of Political Science


Speakers:

  • Joyeeta Gupta, Professor Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam
  • Pierre Jacquet, President of the Global Development Network and Professor of International Economics
  • Louka Katseli, Professor, University of Athens and former Greek Minister of Economy, Shipping and Competitiveness
  • Peter Knorringa, Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies
  • Branko Milanovic, Professor at City University New York, Expert at Luxembourg Income Survey

 

The 14th General Conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) is a major European event devoted to the topical theme of “Responsible Development in a Polycentric World: Inequality, Citizenship and the Middle Classes”.


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Veranstaltungsinformation

Datum / Uhr
25.06.2014 / 10:00 - 11:45

Ort

Bonn, Gustav-Stresemann-Institute

EADI General Conference 2014

EADI General Conference 2014

The 14th General Conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) “Responsible Development in a Polycentric World: Inequality, Citizenship and the Middle Classes” takes place from  23 – 26 June 2014 in Bonn, Germany