Inequality Flashcards
1
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What does inequality mean?
A
means extreme differences between poverty and wealth, as well as in peoples’ wellbeing and access to things like jobs, housing and education.
2
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State some factors that contribute to inequality.
A
- Hostile Landscapes are hard to work with
- Some countries have a high level of debt because they take out loans and take out more loans to pay back the first one
- Some countries are corrupt
- ## They have been drained of resources from colonisers
3
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What is the poverty cycle
A
Economic Decline, Low personal income, Less access to food and water, Hunger and poor sanitation, disease malnutrition and death, depleted workforce and then back into economic decline.
4
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What is the development gap?
A
The differences in riches of the poorest and wealthiest countrie sin the world.