Inequality Flashcards

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What does inequality mean?

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means extreme differences between poverty and wealth, as well as in peoples’ wellbeing and access to things like jobs, housing and education.

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State some factors that contribute to inequality.

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  • 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
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What is the poverty cycle

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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.

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What is the development gap?

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The differences in riches of the poorest and wealthiest countrie sin the world.

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