During the last three decades, obesity has emerged as a big public health issue in affluent societies. A number of academic and policy approaches have been taken, none of which has been very effective
After a decade of deregulation and economic liberalization, the high levels of unity and social harmony that had been achieved during Japan's decades of rapid economic growth are under threat. Social
During the 1970s, Japan was widely characterized as among the most egalitarian countries in the world, but the turn of the century saw a growing awareness of persistent economic and social inequality.
This collection of ten articles on social structures in modern Japan examines issues of inequality and discrimination in Japanese culture and explores issues of social justice and class structure in s
In a global landscape the representational practices through which inequalities gain meaning are central -both within and across national boundaries. Social Inequality & The Politics of Representa
As Washington D.C. politicians call for laws that would require disclosure of CEO-employee salary rate ratios, and CEOs of major companies such as Japan’s Shiseido call for elevating women in the work
Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women’s rights which gui
A thorough analysis of the interconnection between inequality and rural factor markets, Unal's work focuses on the intersection of agriculture and inequality. She uses Turkey as a case study to invest
社會不平等是一個國際性的問題，世界各國都面臨著不平等的挑戰，而且國際不平等也有加劇的跡象。本書利用中國家庭追蹤調查（China Family Panel Studies，CFPS）的數據，從微觀層面系統性地研究了中國減少不平等以及推進可持續發展的實踐、經驗和成效。書中進一步闡述了在當前國際環境下世界各國如何應用中國經驗減少不平等的原則和方法，便於世界各國及時瞭解和掌握中國的經驗並能夠將其應用到本國的實踐中，為實現全球可持續發展提供了重要的支撐。
Degenerate and singular parabolic equations have been the subject of extensive research for the last 25 years. Despite important achievements, the issue of the Harnack inequality for non-negative solu
The subject of this book is discussing the income inequality of Chinese residents, its change and the factors that impact it. In this book all kinds of quantitative methods, including decomposing Gini
This book contributes to the understanding of gender and regional inequalities in developing countries. First, it deals with social institutions related to gender inequality and proposes new composite
The need to analyse labour market mechanisms in post-industrial Western societies is urgent. Despite laws and policy measures being developed at the European, national and local levels, job-seeking im
