POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - List Of Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Routes, Harmonious Society, Aravind Eye Hospitals
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Seeing inequality: bearing witness, counting inequality (objective exercise?) During mid 1990"s to 2000"s poverty rate decreased by 30% from 15% of population to just 9%! But when you consider that 9% of the canadian population equals like 3 million people then this number should scare you. It is political how we count these numbers and what these numbers may mean in the end. 1$/day versus 2$ a day this is very low. In china, at a dollar a day, they boast that they have lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. In the aggregate, we"ve reduced the number of people living under 1. 25$ a day, reduced this number. Option 2 in 1988, 93% of the world population lived in the poorest countries. In 2008, vast majority of poorest people live in middle income countries, indonesia china ex. In some ways, we"ve solved the problem of growing aggregate problems Countries have become richer but people in these countries have remained poor.
