Social Inequality as a Global Challenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Inequality as a Global Challenge write by Medani P Bhandari. This book was released on 2024-10-21. Social Inequality as a Global Challenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tries to present an accurate picture of these issues with cases studies from various countries.Mostly, when we talk about inequality, the focus is on economic inequality; however, much inequality persists, especially discrimination due to gender, age, origin, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, class, and religion.
Inequality in the Developing World
Inequality in the Developing World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inequality in the Developing World write by Carlos Gradín. This book was released on 2021. Inequality in the Developing World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all multilateral agencies. It is at the core of the 17 goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This book contributes to this important discussion by presenting assessments of the measurement and analysis of global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the world's largest developing countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa.
The Health Gap
The Health Gap - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Health Gap write by Michael Marmot. This book was released on 2015-09-10. The Health Gap available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Punchily written ... He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed' Times Literary Supplement 'Splendid and necessary' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New Statesman There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor. A poor man in Glasgow is rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian's life expectancy is 8 years shorter. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to his poverty; the Glaswegian of violent death, suicide, heart disease linked to a rich country's version of disadvantage. In all countries, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage, dramatically so. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals the better is their health. These health inequalities defy usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health have emphasised access to technical solutions – improved medical care, sanitation, and control of disease vectors; or behaviours – smoking, drinking – obesity, linked to diabetes, heart disease and cancer. These approaches only go so far. Creating the conditions for people to lead flourishing lives, and thus empowering individuals and communities, is key to reduction of health inequalities. In addition to the scale of material success, your position in the social hierarchy also directly affects your health, the higher you are on the social scale, the longer you will live and the better your health will be. As people change rank, so their health risk changes. What makes these health inequalities unjust is that evidence from round the world shows we know what to do to make them smaller. This new evidence is compelling. It has the potential to change radically the way we think about health, and indeed society.
Collateral Damage
Collateral Damage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collateral Damage write by Zygmunt Bauman. This book was released on 2011-06-13. Collateral Damage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. This new book focuses on social inequality.
The Problem of Social Inequality
The Problem of Social Inequality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of Social Inequality write by Scott G. McNall. This book was released on 2015-12-07. The Problem of Social Inequality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Within and among nations, rising levels of social inequality threaten our collective future. Currently, upwards of 80% of people’s life chances are determined by factors over which they have absolutely no control. Social inequality threatens the democratic project because it destroys the trust on which governments depend, and it gives rise to corrupt political and economic institutions. How can we get out of the traps we have created for ourselves? We need to reboot capitalism. Drawing on diverse examples from a range of countries, McNall explains the social, economic, and ecological traps we have set for ourselves and develops a set of rules of resilience that are necessary conditions for the creation and maintenance of democratic societies, and a set of rules essential for creating a sustainable future.
