SOC308H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: International Inequality
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Next week is when you can start submitting, however for next week only allowed to do one: malanivick: 1st: weighted international inequality: comparing gdp of nation compared with other nations. Unit of analysis is the nation, people in it are unaccounted for. Questions you may ask: what kind of nations are poor and what nations are wealthy. 2nd: population weighted inequality: a couple of people representing the nation in terms of gdp and income. Same type of questions as concept one but will be weighted. 3rd: world income distribution: focuses only on the people, the nation is wiped out, people are considered as one unit, and the distribution of their incomes is considered. Global inequality decreasing from 1965-1978, but from 1978-2000 it begins to increases. Draws attention to outliers that skew the data, nations like china, india that had huge gaps of inequality began to close in, as their inequality closes in other nations fell.
