Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - 2Degrees, Transpiration, Evapotranspiration
27 Jan 2014
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Hour glass un development program (divided in quintiles 20%s) If you track wealth disparity it has gotten incredibly worse 1820 3 to 1 and 1960 30 to 1 and. 1997 74 to 1 (average richest person is 74x richer than the poorest average person) Colonial making of world and colonial independence resulted in more disparity. Top 5th to bottom 5th is a factor of 80 average person in canada has 80x greater income than poorest people in africa. This un scale is very deceptive there is affluence in very poor countries like south jamaica (kingston, the capital for example) The us has the most unequal wealth distribution in the entire world (the 1%). This is the greatest difference since the cusp of the depression. This 10% controls half the wealth of the us. The 2/5 is incredible getting bigger (china, brazil, india, south africa)
