POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependency Ratio, Sub-Saharan Africa, Gini Coefficient
9 Mar 2015
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Social status the degree of respect (no direct correlation between respect and income) Economic role are you self employed, small peasants, large agriculturalist ? some prediction about how economic policies and the interest of social group are related. = nature of bourgeoisie has significance for the way they behave comprador bourgeoisie likes foreign investment whereas the national bourgeoisie sees it as competition. = it can get fuzzy because people don"t have to fit in one category. Mumbai in india and in brazil slums/condos capture how significant those class inequalities can be. As development occurs, inequality gets worst for a period (presence of winners and losers) then social welfare systems to redistribute wealth at a certain point it declines thanks to the welfare state. Very good data on land ownership as egypt established land reforms after military coup obligated to use data and see how much land available before redistributing it.
