GPOL 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Gini Coefficient, Nationstates, United States
25 Feb 2015
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The chapters why are some better off than others? and how can we end poverty? both revolved around inequality, poverty, more importantly the various types, the causes and the various ways to ultimately end them. The first chapter mainly focused on inequality within nation-states. Some countries had higher average incomes for its populace, but also had a very large discrepancy between the richer and the poorer individuals. Many systems such as the gini coefficient and percentiles are used as a way to calculate the inequality. Many things could factor the inequality such as the race and gender of the individual. In the united-states, women earn 71 to a man"s dollar. Race also plays a factor, hispanics were found to be the worst off and asians were found to be better off. Inequality was used to show that being poor in a certain area isn"t equivalent to being poor in another nation-state.
