Gini coefficient

have been successfully proved that they are strongly related. Within the research, there is a cross-national comparison chart which is of life expectancy and the varying severity of inequalities. The chart indicates that the countries with lower Gini coefficient have longer life expectancy (Mendelson, A. 2015). The researcher says that greater inequality leads to worse health outcomes. From another perspective to see inequalities, normally people who have no privilege are suffering from…

The world has a long history of colonialism, with most of the world today being shaped by colonialism. At a point in time, most countries were divided into two categories: colonies, or empires. To be an empire, it was essential to have numerous colonies, as this was a way to show power and obtain raw resources. However, the modern world now has changed significantly, or it has claimed it has. Although colonialism of the past does not exist anymore, the effects of colonialism are still present…

We have kinds of cities and we have our own views of them. But as civilians, we only see the what is attractive to us such as, building, parks, and the attractions of the city, but we never think deeply enough to see the reality. Richard Florida, the author of the book The New Urban Crisis, is a researcher and expert in cities. He identifies inequality, segregation, and high costs of living as challenges confronting today’s cities. Florida applies the sociological imagination to break down…

Urban areas are the amalgamation of complex processes in which environmental, social, cultural, demographic and economic factors influence the health and wellbeing of its residents. Health in urban areas is therefore linked to various processes inherent in urbanization itself and quality of natural, built and social environment. Presently more than half of the world`s population is living in urban areas and that proportion is expected to grow in coming decades. The recent UN estimates suggest…

low-income economy with an GNI per capita of $1070 in 2015. In 2012, 21.58% of the population lived on less than $2 per day, down from 53.25% in 2004. Also in 2012, 17.7% of the population lived under its national poverty line and Cambodia had a Gini coefficient of 30.8. In 2015, Cambodia ranked 143 out of 188 on the HDI. Cambodia is still recovering from the destruction of its education system by the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979), though impressive gains have been made. In 2015, literacy rates for…

Throughout this semester in class we have discussed inequality from many different perspectives but the overarching theme of the class was the fact that something needs to be done about inequality particularly here in the US. I am not saying it is right to have people living on the streets while there are people driving million dollar cars down that same street but is that not what makes Capitalism work? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Capitalism is defined as, “An economic system…

All societies have ways by which people are classified by others, this is known as differentiation. The main types of differentiation include; gender, age, ethnicity, social class and disability. Societies also tend to have stratas or layers of people with different social importance, wealth and status; this is known as stratification (Punch et al, 2013). The result of stratification and differentiation is that people have different life chances in the course of their lives. Any society that has…

An Economy is “A system established in a country or region to handle the production and consumption of goods and services and the supply of money”. The purpose of establishing an economy is to ensure that all scarce resources are used efficiently to maximise on the welfare of individuals, through providing tangible goods and intangible services, however opinions differ on what course of action should be implemented. The three commonly know systems are ‘command’, ‘free market & ‘mixed’, however…

Something that will never truly have any static definition throughout history is Economic Freedom. What may assist in defining these freedoms is the present Government, and today’s society, which means it’s always vastly changing. Today’s Society and present Government is always changing at a rapid pace. Some things that need to be recognized and addressed are Race, Creed, Gender and Religion, these characteristics are all factors that are used to define their place in the hierarchy of Society…

Is our society vulnerable? Recently, when Ebola virus has been raging in West Africa out of control, various countries in the world would inspect anyone from the affected area rigidly and afraid that Ebola virus course public scare. Is our modern society vulnerable? Does science and knowledge bring stronger social structure? Admittedly, with the development of science and technology, people could enjoy their lives without worry about most of plague, such as the Black Death estimated to result in…