This volume recommends the development of clearer policies for employment and income redistribution to address social and economic inequalities. It documents that, over the last two decades, the growth of nonstandard and informal employment has led to greater inequalities.

This timely book documents and analyses the seriousness of growing national inequality in different regions around the world. It argues that the treatment of inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is wholly insufficient due to their failure to recognise the growing difference between the income of work and the income of capital and the super rich, and the strain this places on a country's social fabric. Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality provides a critical view on how inequality is dealt with in the process of setting global goals. It reviews the...