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    Inequality in Brazil

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    I. Introduction Brazil is almost as famous for its inequality as for its soccer. According toFacing Up to Inequality in Latin America‚ the IDB (1998) ranked both Brazil’s total Gini coefficient1 (0.60) and its urban-only Gini coefficient (0.57) as the highest in the region. Its ratio of per-capita urban to per-capita rural household incomes (3.0) was also the highest in Latin America. The World Bank’s point estimates for Gini coefficients‚ listed in Attacking Poverty (WDR 2001) for as many countries

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    Sociology- Inequalities

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    understanding of terms such as health‚ ill-health‚ illness‚ disease‚ mental health and disability defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This essay will use data to describe inequalities in health and care. It will include the Black Report (1980) and the Acheson Report (1989) to highlight health and social inequalities in Britain. The social model says there’s more to disease than physical symptoms. The social model looks outwards from the individual to the environmental and social factors which

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    savage inequalities

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    Savage Inequalities By Jonathan Kozol In 1964‚ the author‚ Jonathan Kozol‚ is a young man who works as a teacher. Like many others at the time‚ the grade school where he teaches is of inferior quality‚ segregated‚ understaffed‚ and in poor physical condition. Kozol loses his first job as a teacher because he introduces children to some African American poetry that subtly questions the conditions of blacks in America. Years later‚ after

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    Gender Inequality

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    Modern Day Discrimination Gender inequality is the most important issue society faces today. This is the unfair difference in the way people are treated based on their gender. There are many places where this injustice occurs. The most detrimental is where people spend a large portion of their time‚ which is the workplace. The workplace must not be viewed as only a traditional job‚ but also things such as being a wife or a mother. Society must improve gender equality in the workplace in order for

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    Income Inequality

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    Income Inequality Gap Over the years America’s inequality income gap has been growing‚ between the rich and the poor. There are many reasons why this is happening. Andrew Carnegie‚ John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz may agree with me‚ but believe there are different reasons why and how it should be dealt with. I would have to say that I agree that Galbraith’s idea is what is better for America now. In the essay “The Gospel of Wealth” Andrew Carnegie says that the rich should invest

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    Income Inequality

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    with healthcare‚ income inequality and poverty. Time to time changes in policies have been made‚ perhaps to improve these issues‚ however‚ the gap between rich and poor keeps increasing and there is very little improvement in healthcare and the economy. In fact‚ healthcare keeps on becoming costly. Major issues like income inequality and poverty are not being taken care of by the government. According to Dr. Raphael (2002) poverty is caused by several reasons such as inequality in people’s income‚ weak

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    GENDER INEQUALITY

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    GENDER INEQUALITY‚kn I have chosen to make my presentation about inequalities between genders after having seen a video last week . I don’t know if someone has seen the speech of Emma Watson at the United Nation about that but if you don’t ‚ the actress gave an impassioned speech on feminism and gender at the U.N. headquarters in New York this weekend to launch the “HeForShe” campaign which aims to galvanize one billion men and boys as advocates for ending the inequalities that women and girls

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    Health Inequality

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    Over the past few years‚ renewed concern for health inequalities and the health of the poor has begun to produce important feelings and research. None more important than those raised by Dr. Adewale Troutman of Louisville‚ KY and his research conducted in the various community areas of his city. Dr. Troutman is the Director of Public Health and Wellness in Louisville. In this paper we will review some of the basic thought provoking ideas presented in Dr. Troutman’s research (Troutman‚ 2008) and

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    Globalization and Inequality Is there a link between globalization and global inequality? Some scholars avoid giving a definite answer to this question. As effects of globalization vary with countries’ population‚ geographical location‚ and history‚ “the causal link between globalization and global inequality is very difficult to make” (Milanovic 11). Many mainstream economists‚ however‚ argue that globalization is not the culprit for global wealth gap: the followings are brief summaries of three

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    Globalization and Inequality

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     Inequality           June  2010       I.  Introduction     The  processes  of  global  economic  integration  initiated  in  the  1960s  have  deeply   impacted  economic  well-­‐being  across  the  globe.  A  number  of  observers  identify   these  processes  as  an  important  factor  contributing  to  the  expansion  of  inequality  

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