Social economy

Social justice is of fundamental significance to the existence and sustainable development of any political society. Social justice describes the fair distribution of goods, services, rights, and duties. Social justice does not imply absolute equality but demands that each person receive the same basic rights and unobstructed access to economic and political resources, not mediated by gender, ethnicity, level of education, economic status, or other demographic characteristics (Jimenez, 2010).…

permeation process facilitated by policies of governments, private corporations, international agencies and civil society organizations.” For instant globalisation is seen as a means for economic development. This refers to the integration of “domestic economies with the world and the inevitable consequential…

amounts of capital. Amsden argues that the most important source of finance was the transfer of resources from agriculture to industry (Amsden, 59). Although there is truth in the importance of agrarian change, the economic bias of development discounts social change. For example, in Chapter 4 “Angel Dust,” Amsden discusses the serious issue of agricultural development during both the First and Second empires. Aid to agriculture during the First and Second American Empire was essential to…

impacts of these policies upon developing economies in particular are a central area of analysis in both The World Is Flat and Bad Samaritans. However, the conclusions drawn by the authors are organized into antipodal camps of thought. In The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman posits that the effects of globalization have leveled the playing field of global…

definition, that includes all the material goods, groceries, services and much more. The list of them is still growing. Some of them, are available to all consumers, but majority is available for narrow social groups whose incomes and earnings are much higher than the rest of our society. For each social group, therefore, the other good can be regarded as a luxury. For the people from Africa, for example, food, water, and even ordinary household appliances, or a water supply. For residents of…

ACTS 4:32-37; MATTEW 25:31-46 INTRODUCTION There is a saying that the rich is a friend to the rich. While the poor is a B to the poor. This statement is further expanded under social stratification in sociology wherein you have the upper class, middle class and the lower class. However, it appears that the middle class is non existing and the divide is now between the upper class and the lower class. This also could be…

analysis of “Whither Cuban Socialism: The changing political economy of the Cuban revolution”, by drawing on the works of economic historian Karl Polanyi. Hamilton begins by outlining the six key stages of political development after the revolution, first of which is the nationalisation of the Cuban economy from 1959-1963. He gives an insight on how the 10 years succeeding the revolution brought about slow growth for the Cuban economy with increases in unemployment and inequality between capital…

thirsty for knowledge, questioned anything and everything, who dived into curiosity, and who increased the country’s worth. What many do not realize is the richness that education delivers to an economy. Author Mustafa Hatipler, in his article "Development Economics and…

traditional lifestyle for the last 300 years. However, since the rise of South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) to power in the Namibian government, the Himba began facing social, cultural, and political change. SWAPO perceives the Himba to be “primitive” people that needs to adapt to the capitalist, globalize economy (Champion & Shields, 2002). The…

thriving. As the economy grows, so do the…