What Is The World's Inequality In The Third World Today?

Some problems associated with living in a neighborhood with a high percentage of the population living in poverty include increased crime rates, poor education, health problems and psychological distress. The concentration of people in high poverty neighborhoods magnifies the problems faced by the poor. This is because it leads to the concentration of the ills associated with poverty. Children in these neighborhood do not only lack basic needs but are also exposed to an hostile environment that holds numerous temptations and does not provide positive motivation (McConville & Ong, 2003). In addition, because schools are distributed geographically, children from high poverty neighborhoods attend the same schools and this result in low performance. This concentration also intensify the shift of the middle and higher income families away from these neighborhoods thus creating a gap between social needs and the financial base necessary to address these issues. The concentration of poverty is important because it has an impact on the distribution of income which might undermines the social fabric and may restrict opportunities for others (Jargowsky, 2003).

The world is very unequal because Geographic location affects what crops a civilization can grow and how they develop because a civilization can grow a variety of crops on different continents which rely on the weather and the climate which depends upon where the civilization is located. In the middle east is where civilizations grew wheat and wheat is high in protein and last a very long time as long as it is dry. Unlike sago is what they grew in papua new guinea, the sago is low in protein and only last three to four days. This is what affects the health and well being of the people which benefits the civilizations only if they have healthy food. The geography affects the agriculture which makes a civilization’s ability to produce agriculture

In early societies, the surplus of goods and resources was rather limited compared to today. This limitation of goods is what kept the societies from being influenced by inequality. In the United States today, goods and resources are not necessarily limited. In today’s world, goods are being manufactured that are not necessarily essential for survival. This allows for certain individuals to gain resources and power, while others get nothing, thus creating the issue of inequality.

Why do some people get the privilege to live great and others have to suffer everyday? There are many places in the world today that are not great places to live and grow up but people don't always have a choice. Guns, germs, and steel by Jared Diamond is written with a purpose to discuss and reveal why some societies have so much and others have so little. He explains the theory behind geographical luck and migration. He also talks about how these two things can lead to technology advances. The reason behind the difference of technology and economy advances all begins with the geography and the way that guns,germs,and steel were introduced and how they were introduced.

Humans have always had to find a way to survive in the changing environment of our world. Humans have had to find many ways to adapt and find different practices to feed their communities. Humans were able to keep their communities alive due to their ways of hunting and gathering. Gender played a role in this way of finding food source. Men were set to be the hunters and the women were responsible for gathering any crops they could find. There was a transition that occurred and a new way of cultivating food emerged. Agriculture became a way of survival for human beings. Agriculture played an intricate role in providing a food source and it had a major impact on the Neolithic societies in the Near East. It provided a new way for society to be permanently transformed from what they once were, hunter gatherers to becoming something more stable and stronger.

“Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people” - Robert Higgs. When people think of income inequality they picture poverty and people not having basic necessities. However income inequality is not just a connection to the poor. Income inequality is strongly affected by education attainment, technology, and gender.

Have you ever noticed that some places look different than others? Some places may look nicer and have more things there. While others do not look as good and don't have a lot of things. In the world, there is so much inequality. In the documentary Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, it talks about how some places do not have a lot of things so it was harder to survive while others had advantages they did not have.

In the world today, it is the minorities that mostly have a difficult time where they have money issues and not have enough opportunities like being able to get an education. Everything in the world is about money. If you want or need something, you have to have money in order to obtain it. Yet this causes an issue for those who are low-income and does not get paid enough. Minorities are not able to have such an education where they will be able to afford and this causes them to not be educated as to learn how to help themselves. In order for minorities to escape poverty, there needs to be an understanding what it is that they possibly need and how the needs and wants can be better dealt with.

Furthermore inequality is caused by those “superior nations”. These superior nations put themselves on a high pedestal resulting in the belief they are better than anyone else. Ethnocentrism is cause by imperialism and can sometimes be the motivation behind imperialism. Inequality is then an effect of those nations or races that believe they are better than

Why is it that in the 1960’s Papua New Guinea was still using stone tools while Eurasia had stronger and more improved steel tools? Inequality is all over the world. Do we know what started it? Inequality isn't something that can happen overnight, it takes thousands of years to develop. Geography is the biggest reason we have inequality, depending where you're at on the latitude line controls your climate. Europe's geographical location allowed their civilizations to have access to better agriculture, domesticated animals, immunities to germs and steel. These early advantages propelled Europe into an unprecedented position of power which allowed them to control and decimate other cultures throughout the world.

Those who produced more food and provide better services benefited, while those who weren’t good at farming and providing services suffered. This began the notion of inequality. Humans now perceived one another in ways they have never done before. Unknowingly, humans created a social hierarchy among themselves. For example, farmers who were better than other farmers, had more wives, which meant more children.

Inequality has been an issue from the dawn of time. All throughout history we can see prime examples of this. World war two and the german invasion, The Spanish and the Incas, and the most well known example, today. But few people have ever asked why it’s always been this way. Europe had geography on it’s side, giving them agricultural advantages, helping them to domesticate animals (and in turn, building resistance to disease) leading to a surplus of food for specialists to invent and experiment. Finally, that led to the decimation of other cultures, and the appropriation of their resources.

Since World War 2, income has risen and income distributions have been relatively equal in the United State. However, income growth has begun to level off and income inequality has dramatically increased over the last three decades (Moller et al, 2009; McGranahan, 1980). This phenomenon, referred to “Great U-Turn” of inequality, raises a question of why the inequality has increased and what the significant determinants affecting the uneven income distributions are (Nielsen, 1997). For the several decades, social scientists have begun to investigate the cause of rising income inequality with various perspectives (Mouw and Kalleberg, 2010; Peters, 2013; McLaughlin, 2002; Partridge and Rickman, 2007). Main perspectives (or explanations) on U.S. uneven income distribution include changes in economic structures, household characteristics, geography, history, and natural resources.

Poverty can be understood as the inability to meet a variety of basic needs and entitlements, through a lack of income, access to resources or empowerment. Poverty at a national scale is complex and is caused by an array of factors including many generated within the country but also others that are caused by external factors (figure 1).

Every city has poverty. Travel around the world, I bet it wouldn’t be difficult to find a city that doesn 't have an impoverished community. Poverty is a global issue, but most importantly it’s a local issue to me in the city that I live in. Among the 10 largest cities in America, Chicago has the third highest poverty rate with 40-60% of our residents living under the poverty level. People who live in poverty are given less opportunities, resources and tools than people who live in the middle or upper class. Poverty is not a pleasant subject, however, poverty is real. In the daily lives of the poor, poverty becomes a network of disadvantages. The end result is that there is a lack of access to education, employment, health care, affordable housing, proper sanitation and good nutrition among many generations of the poor (End Poverty). Of the issues associated with poverty, the lack of access to an education stands out to me the most. In Chicago, education is greatly valued and is vital for all development and growth achievements in people. Education is the process in which people gain knowledge, help form and shape attitudes and opinions, and allow people to gain a set of skills that they can further use in areas outside of a school environment. However, education systems in Chicago are taking a huge deficit due to the effects of poverty. The effects of poverty are already big factors toward the concern about Chicago, and why it is portrayed as negatively as it is, but those