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It is surprising that extreme inequality pushes more people into poverty in the world especially in the developing countries. Oxfam America (2017) reported that just 8 people now have the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people. Furthermore, far from dropping down, income and wealth are instead being forced upwards at an alarming rate. Notably, the economic system and political system grip world’s economy back and make it difficult for hardworking people to get forward. To my mind, now the time to wake up and bring the change for freezing global inequality.

Aziza

Source: Oxfam America
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/campaign/extreme-inequality-and-poverty/

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In the US, there is an extremely unequal distribution of wealth between people, to the extent where the top 1% of wealth owners hold 40% of the country's wealth

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Inequality happens everywhere in the world. In many communities, what one rich person consumes is much more than many poor people do. Only one voice from a rich person is much louder than hundred poor people’s voice.

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Inequality creates discrimination between the poor and rich.  It can be seen in this picture that only few are rich while the majority are poor. There are many reasons but the obvious one can be   income disparity.

Grace Ina

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Inequality existed from time immemorial all over the world. Globalization hardly played a positive role in minimizing the ever-increasing gaps between rich and poor. In addition, to make matters worse it increase the gap in many instances. Due to globalization, local markets of many third world countries are flooded with foreign goods, severely affecting the local economy. As a result, the rich countries are becoming richer and the poor countries are being stuck in the vicious cycle of poverty. There is no end in sight of the increasing poverty until local market of poor countries are given enough space to flourish.

Lily Myat

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Income inequality is a crucial issue in our world and society. The few rich hold most of the wealth who live in a luxury conditions, while lots of poor could not afford their basic needs.

Bhabhani

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Inequality affects everyone, but children the most

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Inequality affects everyone, but children the most

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Inequality does not have any single definition. To me, this means inequality. This picture represents the inequality in education sector. Because people in developed countries can access good education as well as good education friendly environment. This is opposite to many developing countries where many children have to struggle a lot in their education life, as seen here: Cambodia.

Soren SOEUM

Source: Teach Them To Fish foundation

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Behind the development, there are many hinder issues that contribute to unequal societies and unfair system.

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For me I associate global inequality with the lifeboat ethics metaphor originally introduced by Garrett Hardin. That there are few nations that hold the wealth and although there is still a great deal of inequality within those nations they are still safe and dry within the metaphorical 'boat', whilst the other nations are struggling to keep their heads above water.  In this example Hardin questions whether these nation's should be taken aboard despite limited space i.e. given aid. He advocated that humanitarian assistance should be in the form of training and development to allow the tools to essentially build their own boat rather than monetary, which would ultimately be unsustainable.

http://flinders-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/FUL:Search All:TN_medline11661143

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There is a sharp rise in inequality in many countries around the world. Rising inequality is leading the poverty rate, the risk of sustainability of economic growth, increasing the inequalities between men and women and driving inequalities in health, education and life chances. Expertise highlights the economic inequality is associated with a range of health and social problems such as mental illness and violent crime. This is true across both rich and poor countries. Inequality hurts everyone.

Nitol Chakma

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Measuring gaps between the rich and the poor

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Measuring gaps between the rich and the poor

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Inequality exists almost everywhere in the world. Different corners of the world experience different forms of inequality. In terms of global perspective, the western world are fighting for advanced stages of wellbeing while the developing and poor countries are still struggling for their basic needs, for their survival. In the local perspective of a particular country, the rich people are getting richer and the poor people are going downward. In the western country, the inequality scenario are barely visible in the streets or in a particular locality. But in case of poor countries, the existence of absolute inequality between the rich and the poor is demonstrated very often, in almost everywhere.

Measuring the scale of gaps between the poor and rich is very essential to address inequality. The measuring process changes from time to time. In the Oxfam blog, a new measure titled ‘The Absolute Palma’ has been proposed which calculates the average income of the top 10 percent minus the average of the bottom 40 percent people. It has been designed to measure the absolute income inequality and the Oxfam claims that it would be a better instrument to weigh the income inequality.

Md. Raihan Kabir

For further readings: http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/why-we-need-to-rethink-how-we-measure-inequality-please-welcome-the-absolute-palma-index/

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How many inequalities can we list or aspects of?

·         Food security

·         Voice

·         Globalisation

·         Community driven communication or not?

·         Minority marginalization

·         What does the development actually mean?

·         Rural inequality

·         Basic health

·         Education

·         Urban slums

·         Population issues

·         Climate Change

·         State services – social and health services

·         Political dominance – west vs the rest

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There is a common misconception that the wealth of the world is a fixed amount. And that over time, a smaller and smaller amount of people control a greater and greater slice of that pie. But it doesn't work that way. Wealth is actually created and destroyed by what people do (add value to materials, ideas, etc), and that is influenced by what other people do in the world economy. It's not a binary "If I get more, you get less" equation. So even if some get very rich, those who are not yet rich should not be excluded from increasing their own wealth

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For me equality goes further than economic equality. It is about people having the opportunity to access basic human rights

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Inequality issues from an Indigenous perspective.

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Inequality issues from an Indigenous perspective.

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I've chosen this photo because inequality from the photo can be percieved in different ways. On a global front, climate change and the effects of will be felt. The importance of the Amazon rainforest in the climate change fight is enormous and I've read a few papers that suggest the best protectors of land and the environment are the indigenous. Yet, the "belomonte dam" so controversial in many ways is going to have a drastic affect on the Amazon Basin and the indigenous peoples. Corrupt Brazilian politicians have been making such important decisions with business incentives first and foremost for the rest of the world in a way. For the indigenous people themselves their connection to nature is the most important. Yet, are often forgotten in land rights issues and even the basic human rights we enjoy. An interesting side point is the connection of poverty to inequality. Poverty has generally been measured by economic means, such as a $1.25 per day as measuring extreme poverty (from my memory). However, an indigenous approach would perhaps measure poverty in connection to land and their food etc.
Joshua Nicholls

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Jane here. This image really summed up for me that global inequality is interconnected.  I find it quite difficult to think through to solutions. Who is the poorest here? or who is the most unequal? or are they two very different questions????  My brain is starting to ache!

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The world inequality is showcased in this photo. As the population grows population density will increase and urban sprawl will worsen.

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Quite simply, we are all the same people 'drinking from the same soup' - but someone has a bigger spoon.  To me global inequality is exactly this - closing our eyes to the people with the smaller spoons and taking more than required from the one big bowl of soup - the planet.  This can be translated into all kinds of things - wealth inequality, political inequality, and definitely social inequality.
- Caitlyn Hoey