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| Al-Sharmani, M. (ed) (2010) Feminist Activism, Women's Rights, and Legal Reform, Zed Books |
| Alkire, S., Bastagli, F., Burchardt, T., Clark, D., Holder, H., Ibrahim, S., Munoz, M., Terrazas, P., Tsang, T., and Vizard, P. (2009) Developing the Equality Measurement Framework: selecting the indicators, Equality and Human Rights Commission, |
| Alkire, S., and Foster, J. E. (2011). 'Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement', Journal of Economic Inequality, 9, pp.289-314. |
| Antoninis, M., Delprato, M. and Benavot, A. (2016) 'Inequality in education: the challenge of measurement?' in ISSC, IDS and UNESCO, World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World, UNESCO Publishing, Paris |
| Atkinson, A. B. (2015). Inequality: What can be done? Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. |
| Bartley, M. (2005). 'Job insecurity and its effect on health', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59:718-719. |
| Bartley, M. (2016). Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods, Polity Press. |
| Brandolini, A., and D'Alessio, G. (1998). 'Measuring well-being in the functioning space, Banca d'Italia Rome. |
| Burchardt T and Vizard P (2011). 'Operationalizing the Capability Approach as a Basis for Equality and Human Rights Monitoring in Twenty-first-century Britain', Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol.12 (1) pp.91-119 |
| Burchardt, T. and Hick, R. (2017) 'Inequality and the Capability Approach', CASEpaper 201, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics. |
| Burchardt, T. and Vizard, P. (2011) ''Operationalizing' the Capability Approach as a Basis for Equality and Human Rights Monitoring in Twenty-first-century Britain', Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 12(1), pp 91-119. |
| Candler J., Holder H., Hosali S., Payne A.M., Tsang T. and Vizard P. (2011) The Human Rights Measurement Framework: Prototype Panels, Indicator Set and Evidence Base, EHRC Research report 81 |
| Chiappero-Martinetti, E. and Salardi, P. (2008). 'Well-being process and conversion factors: an estimation' HDCP-IRC Working Paper Series 03/2008 Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre. |
| Cleary C., Tsang T., and Vizard P. (2014). 'The Children's Measurement Framework: a new indicator-based tool for monitoring children's equality and human rights', Child Indicators Research, 7, 2, pp 321-349. |
| Comim, F., Qizilbash, M. and Alkire, S. (2010). The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Cote-Lussier, C. (2016). 'How Rising Social Inequality May Be Fueling Public Demands for Increasingly Harsh Criminal Justice Policies.' LSE USAPP Blog. |
| Cowell, F. A. and Flachaire, E. (2017) 'Inequality with Ordinal Data', Economica, 84, pp. 290-321. |
| Cromarty, H. (2018). 'Gypsies and Travellers', House of Commons Library Briefing Paper 08083 |
| Dang, A. (2014) 'Amartya Sen's Capability Approach: A Framework for Well-Being Evaluation and Policy Analysis?', Review of Social Economy, 72:4, 460-484, DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.958903 |
| Dillon, A. (2010). 'Measuring child labor: Comparisons between hours data and subjective measures', Research in Labor Economics, 31, 135-159. |
| Diprose, R. (2007). 'Safety and security: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators of violence'. OPHI Working Paper 1, University of Oxford. |
| EHRC (2011) How fair is Britain? Equality, human rights and good relations in 2010: The First Triennial Review. London: Equality and Human Rights Commission. |
| EHRC (2015). Is Britain fairer? The state of equality and human rights 2015. London: The Stationery Office. |
| EHRC (2017), Measurement Framework for Equality and Human Rights |
| Ferreira, F.H.G., and Gignoux, J. (2013). 'The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity?', The World Bank Economic Review, 28 (2) 210-246. |
| Ferris, E. (2010). 'Natural disasters, conflict and human rights: tracing the connections', The Brookings Institution - On the Record, |
| Fuentes-Nieva, R., and Galasso, N. (2014). 'Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality', Oxfam Briefing Paper 178, published by Oxfam GB for Oxfam International under ISBN 978-1-78077-540-1 |
| Gaventa, J and McGee, R (2010). Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen, Zedbooks |
| Gilen, M. (2012) Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America, Princeton University Press. |
| Gilens, M. and Page, B.I., 2014. 'Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.' Perspectives on Politics, 12 (3), 564?581. |
| Gurumurthy, A., Bharthur, D., and Chami, N. (2017) 'Voice or chatter? Making ICTs work for transformative citizen engagement', IDS research report |
| Hagan, J., and Peterson, R. D. eds. (1995). Crime and Inequality. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. |
| Hansen, T. and Slagsvold, B. (2016). 'Late-life loneliness in 11 European countries: Results from the Generations and Gender Survey', Social Indicators Research, 129(1): 445-464. |
| Hawkley, L.C. and Cacioppo, J.T. (2010). 'Loneliness matters: A theoretical and empirical review of consequences and mechanisms', Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 40(2): 218-227. |
| Hill Collins, P., and Bilge, S. (2016). Intersectionality, Cambridge: Polity. |
| Hobson, B., Fahlen, S., and Takacs, J. (2011). 'Agency and Capabilities to Achieve a Work-Life Balance: A Comparison of Sweden and Hungary', Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 18, 2, 168-198. |
| IMF (2017). IMF Fiscal Monitor: Tackling Inequality, International Monetary Fund |
| Ibrahim S. (2017). 'How to Build Collective Capabilities: The 3C-Model for Grassroots-Led Development', Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 18:2, 197-222, DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2016.1270918 |
| Ibrahim, S. (2006). 'From Individual to Collective Capabilities: The Capability Approach as a Conceptual Framework for Self-help', Journal of Human Development, 7:3, 397-416, DOI: 10.1080/14649880600815982 |
| Kabeer, N. (2016). 'Leaving no one behind': the challenge of intersecting inequalities', in ISSC, IDS and UNESCO, World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World, UNESCO Publishing, Paris |
| Lacey, N., and Soskice D. (2015). 'Crime, punishment and segregation in the United States: The paradox of local democracy'. Punishment and Society. 17(4):454?481 |
| Marmot, M. (2016). The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World, Bloomsbury. |
| McKnight, A. and F. Cowell (2014) 'Social Impacts: Health, Housing and Intergenerational Mobility' in Salverda, W., Nolan, B., Checchi, D., Marx, I., McKnight, A., Toth, I. G., and H. G. van de Werfhorst (eds) (2014) Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Murphy, C., and Gardoni, P. (2010). 'Assessing capability instead of achieved functionings in risk analysis', Journal of Risk Research, 13: 2, 137-147 |
| Neumayer, E., and Plumper, T. (2007). 'The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981-2002' Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97(3) |
| Ni?o-Zarazua, M., Roope, L. and Tarp, F. (2016). 'Global inequality: relatively lower, absolutely higher', Review of Income and Wealth, 63, 4, pp. 661-684. |
| Nolan, B., Salverda, W., Checchi, D., Marx, I., McKnight, A., Toth, I. G., and van de Werfhorst, H. G. (eds) (2014). Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries' Experiences. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Nussbaum, M. C. (2003). 'Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and global justice', Feminist Economics, 9 (2-3), pp. 33-59. |
| OECD (2008). Growing unequal? Income distribution and poverty in OECD countries. Paris: OECD Publishing. |
| OECD (2011). Education at a Glance 2011, Paris: OECD. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/education-at-a-glance-2011_eag-2011-en |
| OECD (2015) In It Together: Why Less Inequality Benefits All, Paris: OECD Publishing |
| Oxfam (2014). Even it up: Time to end extreme inequality. |
| Oxfam (2016). An Economy for the 1%: How privilege and power in the economy drive extreme inequality and how this can be stopped. Oxfam Briefing Paper 210. Available at: |
| Petitt, J. (2012) Empowerment and Participation: bridging the gap between understanding and practice |
| Pew Research Center (2015), 'Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities', Pew Research Center report |
| Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. |
| Renger, D., and Simon, B. (2011). 'Social recognition as an equal: The role of equality-based respect in group life', Special Issue: The Centrality of Social Image in Social Psychology, 41, 4, pp 501-507 |
| Ritualo, A. R., and Castro, C. L. and Gormly, S. (2003). 'Measuring Child Labor: Implications for Policy and Program Design', Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 401-434, Winter 2003 |
| Robeyns, I. (2017) 'Having Too Much', in J. Knight and M. Schwartzberg (eds.) NOMOS LVI: Wealth. Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, New York University Press. |
| Robeyns, I. (2017a) Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined. |
| Robeyns, I. (2017b) 'Having Too Much', in J. Knight and M. Schwartzberg (eds.) NOMOS LVI: Wealth. Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, New York University Press. |
| Rufrancos, H. G., Power, M., Pickett, K, E. and Wilkinson, R. (2013). 'Income Inequality and Crime: A Review and Explanation of the Time-series Evidence', Sociology and Criminology-Open Access. |
| Ruwanpura, K. N. and Rai, P. (2004). Forced Labour: Definitions, Indicators and Measurement, ILO working paper DECLARATION/WP/18/2004 |
| Salverda, W., Nolan, B., Checchi, D., Marx, I., McKnight, A., Toth, I. G., and H. G. van de Werfhorst (eds) (2014). Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Sen, A. K. (1979) 'Equality of What?' The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, delivered at Stanford University. |
| Sen, A. K. (1985) Commodities and Capabilities, North-Holland, Amsterdam. |
| Sen, A. K. (1987), 'The Standard of Living' in G. Hawthorn (ed), The Standard of Living, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Sen, A. K. (1992) Inequality Reexamined, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Sen, A. K. (1993), 'Capability and Well-being', in Nussbaum, M. and Sen, A (ed) The Quality of Life, Oxford: Clarendon Press. |
| Sen, A. K. (1999). Development As Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Sen, A. K. (2004) 'Capabilities, Lists, and Public Reason: Continuing the Conversation', Feminist Economics, 10(3): 77-80. |
| Sen, A. K. (2009), The Idea of Justice, London: Allen Lane |
| Shapiro, T. M., and Kenty-Drane, J. L. (2005). 'The Racial Wealth Gap', in C. A. Conrad, J. Whitehead, P. Mason, and J. Stewart (eds.) African Americans in the U.S. Economy, pp. 175-181, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
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| Stewart, F. (2016). 'Horizontal inequalities', in ISSC, IDS and UNESCO, World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World, UNESCO Publishing, Paris. |
| Stiglitz, J. (2012) 'Justice for All? How Inequality is Eroding the Rule of Law', in The Price of Inequality, Allen Lane. |
| Stiglitz, J. (2012). The price of inequality: how today's divided society endangers our future, New York: W.W. Norton and Co. |
| Sugden, R. (1993). 'Welfare, Resources, and Capabilities: A Review of Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen', Journal of Economic Literature, 31, 194762. |
| Therborn, G. (2013). The Killing Fields of Inequality, Cambridge: Polity Press. |
| UN HRC (2015). Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, UN Human Rights Council A/HRC/29/23 |
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| Vaughan, R., and Walker, M. (2012). 'Capabilities, values and education policy?', Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 13 (3) pp. 495-512 |
| Venkatapuram, S. (2011) Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach, Polity Press. |
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| Vizard P, (2012) 'Evaluating Compliance using Quantitative Methods and Indicators: Lessons from the Human Rights Measurement Framework', Nordic Journal of Human Rights Special Issue - Quantifying Human Rights, No. 3:12, Vol. 30 |
| Vizard P. and Speed L. (2015) 'Examining multidimensional inequality and deprivation in Britain using the capability approach', Special issue on Capability Approach and Multidimensional Well-being in High-income Countries', Forum for Social Economics |
| Vizard, P. (2012) 'Evaluating Compliance using Quantitative Methods and Indicators: Lessons from the Human Rights Measurement Framework', Nordic Journal of Human Rights Special Issue - Quantifying Human Rights, No. 3:12, Vol. 30 |
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| Walker, M. (2006). `Towards a capability-based theory of social justice for education policy-making?, Journal of Education Policy, 21, 2, pp. 163-185. |
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