Social Inequality As#2

SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND PROGROWTH POLICIES:

Class session #2

Social Issues and Regional Policy

Agung Sugiri, Dec 2008

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The Organisation 

What is Social Inequality?  Any

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relationship with Economic Inequality?

How this happens?  Tradition;

heritage?  Pro-growth policies have something to do? 

Why this matters?  Will

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impede development?

If this really matters, what to do then? Agung Sugiri, Dec 2008

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Social Inequality: What is? A phenomenon of human diversity: ethnics, races, opportunities, group affiliations, social attainment, etc.  Unequal treatments in social life due to the aforementioned diversity 

 Uneven

access to facilities (discrimination)  Social hatred 

Relates to economic inequality? Agung Sugiri, Dec 2008

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Social Inequality: How this happens?  Fee

will? Due to ideologies, traditions, religions?  Sufism/religious

cleric systems – deprived voluntarily from worldly enjoyment  Caste system  Gender inequality  Social

constructionism?  Follow up the economic inequality?  Structural?  Policy failures? Agung Sugiri, Dec 2008

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Social Inequality: Why matters?  Not

good for development? Why?  Something is not right? What?  Write 15

your opinion, please…

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Pro-growth Policy  Maximising

economic growth  The consequences are: Pro

capital-intensive Pro highest segment of income in the society Elite-making mechanism: socially privileged actors; spatially privileged growth-poles  Socially

criterion

non-optimal  Pareto Agung Sugiri, Dec 2008

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What to do then?  Vision

(ideal):

 No

social inequality at all?  Social inequality may still be there, but as far as development mechanism is concerned, this is not because of, and does not imply, inequity. 

Social Justice

Condition:

Equity is not relative and not subjective Agung Sugiri, Dec 2008

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What to do then?  Identify

equity failures in the existing development mechanism  Identify the cause and effect chains  Plan for improved development mechanism  Establish proper policy and programs within the priority scheme Agung Sugiri, Dec 2008

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What to do then?  Does

pro-growth policy hold?  What about the welfare state?  A lesson from the developed world?

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SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND PROGROWTH POLICIES: Class session #2

Social Issues and Regional Policy

TERIMAKASIH Agung Sugiri, Dec 2008

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