Abstract
This chapter provides the conceptual and contextual backdrop for the case studies in this volume. The chapter discusses some of the challenges that the world is currently confronting in addition to environmental degradation and climate change: rising income and wealth concentration, with social exclusion and the marginalization of many segments of the population. This is a trend in developed and developing countries alike. The chapter deals with the growth and impact of global capitalism and discusses the imperative of inclusive development policies to address and find solutions to these issues. Alternative measures of economic and social progress are discussed. The chapter also looks at social innovation and social entrepreneurship and discusses why these concepts are different from traditional ways of looking at innovations. Finally, the chapter looks at the growth of the so-called Third Sector and discusses to what extent it can deliver innovational solutions to social problems, where both the business sector and the public sector have failed.
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Milanovic’s work is to a large extent based on Maddison’s historical data collection on GDP and income developments in over 100 countries (Maddison 2003).
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One of the main conclusions is that r > g , where r is the rate of return to capital and g is the rate of growth world output. One of Piketty’s policy recommendations is that governments take actions to adopt a global tax on wealth and capital transactions.
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A form of welfare in which capable adults are required to perform work, often in public-service jobs, as a condition of receiving assistance.
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These 17 countries accounted for 53 % of the global population and 59 % of the global GDP.
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Which in turn to a large extent was a result of the increasing US indebtedness due to the war in Vietnam.
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The proceedings from the Malmö Meeting on Social Innovation (24–25 November 2015) are available at http://socialinnovation.se/en/new-swedish-meeting-place-for-social-innovation/
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VOLUNTAS is published online by Springer http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11266-015-9659-y?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals
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https://istrconference.wordpress.com/ announcing conferences about the Third Sector in Moscow (April 2016), and in Stockholm (June 2016).
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See for instance http://www.nesta.org.uk/development-impact-and-you-toolkit
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For a discussion of the difference between “digitization” and “digitalization,” see for instance http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/index.php/authors-for-home/what-are-businesses-aiming-for-to-be-digital-digitized-or-digitalization/
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Total Factor Productivity.
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European Commission DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology.
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Official name: United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED).
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Brundenius, C. (2017). Challenges of Rising Inequalities and the Quest for Inclusive and Sustainable Development. In: Brundenius, C., Göransson, B., Carvalho de Mello, J. (eds) Universities, Inclusive Development and Social Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43700-2_2
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