ECON3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Central Africa, Micronutrient, Vitamin A Deficiency
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Econ3109 lecture 13 - inequality and human rights. The problem: widening income inequality is the defining challenge of our time. In advanced economies, the gap between the rich and poor is at its highest level in decades. Inequality trends have been more mixed in emerging markets and developing countries (emdcs), with some countries experiencing declining inequality, but pervasive inequities in access to education, health care, and finance remain. Electricity: 1. 6 billion people - a quarter of humanity live without electricity, globally, the number of people without access to electricity is falling. India have 306 million people without access to reliable electricity. In middle income economies a poverty line of is closer to the practical minimum. World bank: according to the most recent estimates, in 2012, 12. 7% of the world"s population lived at or below . 90 a day. Between 1981 and 2011, 753 million people moved above the . 90-a-day threshold.