SOCIOL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Extreme Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa, International Inequality
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Extreme poverty in some regions has declined less than in others. Share of population living in extreme poverty in sub-saharan. 10% of the world population is still a lot of people living in extreme poverty. Captures just under a billion people living in extreme poverty! 10% of world population still lives in extreme poverty 746 million. The need to look at global inequality people. As we have seen, globally the share of people living in extreme poverty has declined. However, we have also seen that some countries around the world have many more people living in extreme poverty than other countries. This is why it is important to examine not just absolute poverty but also levels of global inequality! Trends in how evenly income distributed amongst the individuals within countries. Example: income gaps between rich and poor. Form 2: many countries in recent decades, including u. s. How evenly is income distributed amongst all the countries in the.
