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Deadline for sending communication proposals 6 october 2019 Date of the decision of the scientific committee 25 november 2019 Deadline for registration and sending of retained papers 9 march 2020
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Growth, development and inequalities An increasingly unequal development? LiRIS and ESO, University Rennes 2 27-28-29 may 2020 Rennes
Inequalities are a consequence of development, which is a polarized process. For a long time, the “Kuznets hypothesis” founded the dominant vision of economists on this topic. It states that inequalities rise at the beginning of the economic growth process and then decline. Since then, empirical studies have less and less confirmed this pattern. It is mainly because, as the author recognized himself, this hypothesis was dependent on extrapolations in the USA. Moreover, the aim of the article, published during the Cold War, was to transition under-developed countries away from Communism. Nowadays, academic literature underlines the growing trend of rising inequalities in the developing word. Fast economic growth Asia provides a good example: while Japan, Taiwan or South-Korea first experienced a shared-development, now in South-East Asia or in China the increase in incomes and the development of a middle-class are not leading to an enhancement of social mobility, but rather deepening inequalities. In Europe, state transfers have for a long while limited inequalities and fostered convergence, but their ongoing hardening prevents further integration, threatening international cooperation and the cohesion of the European Union (EU). This trend prompted the World Bank to mobilize and study the concept of “Class” as an economic category. Globalization and the upheaval of the international environment, in common with the Chinese economic expansion, allow an acceleration of growth and emphasizes the differentiation between productive structures and economic trajectory in developing countries. Some countries return to the primary sector while others accelerate their technological development. Everywhere inequalities are growing between the winners and losers of world economic enlargement and competition. The speed and differentiation of economic development are strengthening because available shortcuts proliferate: the stocks of advanced countries and the supply of technologies increase; commercial protection falls; international insertion opportunities rise; the circulation of capital, technologies and skills accelerates, etc. In China, India or South-East Asia international openness fosters economic growth and allows for the reduction of poverty. Although globalization has long been presented as a growth driver, it does not culminate in an equally shared prosperity. In many countries, unskilled workers lost their jobs, industrialization has receded, jobs in manufacturing have disappeared and wage gaps between unskilled and skilled workers have increased. Inequalities are growing both within and between countries. A large part of the current world population live in a more unequal society than during the previous century. Despite the rise in world wealth, income disparities are greater in developing countries. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recalls that since 2000, 50% of the rise in world wealth benefits just 1% of the world population. By contrast, the poorest half of humanity received only 1% of this world wealth’s rise. The distribution of wealth is still concentrated. The richest 1% of the planet owned 32% of the world’s wealth in 2000; this had swelled to 46% by 2010. The world is more unequal today than it has ever been since World War II. These monetary inequalities overlap with blatant social and ecological inequalities. Threats to the ecosystem and the disruption of the planet’s geochemical cycles impact long-term development perspectives. Impacts of these global problems will be localized, highly unequal and differentiated, between and within countries. The poorest amongst the existing population will prove the most vulnerable. The continuation of such trends seems likely in the medium, but not necessarily long, term. In a variety of ways, inequalities are a threat to economic progress and international cooperation. They restrict prospects of economic development, limit access to economic resources and exacerbate exclusion. They undermine the states that endeavour to define common objectives and accrue resources to achieve them. They weaken social cohesion, cause conflicts and lessen democratic processes. Frustration promotes political instability and reactions against inequalities and globalization are likely to transform politics in several developing countries. Therefore, the polarization of economic growth and job-creation in the South will probably cause population displacements as people relocate to access better opportunities. The determinants of inequalities are complex as they have a multidimensional nature and are often cumulative. If the rise in income inequalities, within and between developing countries, is partly due to the globalization, development policies and their modalities played an important role. The 36th Development Days of the Association Tiers-Monde (ATM) - organized by LiRIS EA 7481 and ESO-Rennes at the University of Rennes 2 together with GEMDEV - will aim to stimulate intellectual debates on the links between economic growth, development and inequalities in the South as well as the North. The ATM 2020 conference will have a particular focus on developing workshops pertaining to relevant research topics.
Workshops Communication proposals should be consistent with following disciplinary fields: urban planning and development, economics, management, law, sociology and political sciences, demography, history, environmental sciences, health… They must precise, in maximum two pages, the main issues, the methodology as well as the analysis framework, expected results and main bibliographical elements. They can deal with theoretical, empirical or methodological aspects and can be written in French, English or Spanish. Oral talks will be done in French or English. Respect of these instructions is a prerequisite for the examination of any proposal by the scientific committee.
A. International inequalities and growing differentiation of trajectories in Developing countries (DCs)
B. Inequalities and internal divergences
C. Definitions, measures and dimensions of the inequalities
D. Globalization, international trade and inequalities What links between growing globalization and growing inequalities?
E. Inequalities and national economic policy
F. Inequalities and sustainable development policies
G. Inequalities, multilateral frameworks for aids and decentralized cooperation
Scientific committee
S. Ababacar Dieng (Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar), P. Adair (Paris Est-Créteil), D. Acclassato (Abomey-Calavi), D. Avom (Dschang ), B. Boidin (Lille I), A. Bourgain (Luxembourg), A. Calcagno (Cnuced), M. Catin (Toulon), M. Clément (Bordeaux), C. Ehrhart (Rennes 2), JJ. Gabas (CIRAD), H. Gérardin (Lorraine), C. Gironde (IHEID Geneve), B. Guesnier (Poitiers), V. Goueset (Rennes 2), M. Humbert (LIRIS), B. Jetin (Univ Brunei Darussalam), E. Lafaye de Micheaux (Rennes 2), M. Lautier (Rennes 2), P. Lectard (Montpellier), M. Lelart, (Cnrs, Orléans), F. Leloup (UC Louvain), C. Mainguy (Strasbourg), C. Mayoukou (Rouen), JP Maréchal (Paris Sud), T. Montalieu (Orléans), P. Ould Amed (Ird), T. Pairault (Cnrs ; Ehess), M. Perisse (Artois), JL Perrault (Rennes 1), J. Poirot (Lorraine), B. Quenault (Rennes 2), M. Rigar (Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech), F. Roubaud (DIAL), A. Saludjian (UFRJ, Rio), S. Somnez (U Atilim, Ankara), S. Treillet (Paris Est-Créteil), M. Tsayem-Demaze (Le Mans), JC. Vérez, (Toulon), M. Vernières (Paris 1).
Steering Committee
Atm : J. Brot, H. Girardin ; LiRIS and ESO : A. Heneguelle, L. Charles, D. Diaw, B. Quenault, P. Turquet, Y. Guy, A. Pellegris, M. Peketi, C. Ehrhart, M. Lautier, C. Tonnellier, A. Berthe, E. Lafaye de Micheaux.
Websites: https://atm2020.sciencesconf.org/ http://www.mondesendeveloppement.eu, rubrique Association Tiers-Monde
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