IDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - World Trade Organization
21 May 2014
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Domestic political challenges to poverty and inequality reduction: the legacies of entrenched social compartmentalization, the legacy of state weakness, example: mexican bank rescue operation, 1995, the legacy of powerful propertied groups, the legacy of unequal social provisioning, conditional cash transfer programs, weak trade unions. How can countries meet these political challenges: note just empowerment of the powerless, must also reduce the power of the powerful, this is very tricky, electoral democracy, civil society organizations, building alliances and support from more privileged groups a) Why the inequality is so high in the countries such as brazil: low income countries are usually the agricultural countries, high income countries are usually have low portion for the agriculture i. e. canada: 1% 2% agriculture, agriculture is the historical reason/element cause the inequality in the developing countries, land monopoly, distribution of education brazil, legacy od colonialism taiwan.
