100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World 1st Edition by Bob Sutcliffe ISBN 185649814X 978-1856498142

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ISBN 10:  185649814X 

ISBN 13: 978-1856498142

Author: Bob Sutcliffe 

This innovative book builds on the fact that there is now a large body of statistical information about today’s highly unequal world. Bob Sutcliffe looks at current affairs, development, and international relations. For anyone wanting to understand the contemporary world, this book probes complex economic issues using innovative diagrams and charts.

Table of contents: 

I Production, work and income
1 Fundamental inequalities between North and South
2 Contrasting structures of production and labour
3 Different production structures
4 Changes in the labour force, 1960-1998
5 Activities of the world’s workers field, factory and office
6 Differing hours of labour, I
7 Differing hours of labour, II
8 Two ways of comparing incomes
9 What work will buy, 1998

II The inequality of income
10 Contrasting degrees of income inequality
11 What the richest 10 per cent get
12 Who is hyper-rich?
13 What the poorest 10 per cent get
14 Who is poor?
15 Two examples of growing inequality
16 The growth of inequality in the USA, 1960-1997
17 World distribution I the unequal city

III Inequalities of births, lives, health and deaths
22 The world division of the population
23 Differences in the expectancy of life
24 Demographic transitions, 1967-1993
25 Contrasting structures of population
26 The minority of the population
27 Differences in the proportion of men and women
28 Female compared with male life expectancy
29 Men and women the effects of age, time and development
30 Men and women the effects of geography and migration
31 Different rates of dying
32 Dying the effects of class, sex, age and race
33 The sex ratio in China and South Asia
34 Excess female mortality and some causes
35 What people die of
36 The extent of inoculation
37 Child mortality
38 The epidemiological transition
39 Different levels of disability
40 The changing nature of death
41 Inequalities in health spending
42 The size of families and households

IV Land, agriculture, food and hunger
43 Dividing the earth
44 The distribution of the land
45 Different patterns of agriculture
46 Crop yields and the green revolution
47 Unequal access to food calorie supply

48 The extent of undernourishment
49 Twenty-five years of success and failure in food production
50 Food crises in Africa
51 The contrast of two diets
52 Differences among the rich
53 Differences among the poor
54 Quantity and variety: the diets of the UK and Bangladesh
55 Animal and vegetable proteins
56 Staple foods

V Four sources of inequality

57 Four sources of wage inequality: the case of Brazil

58 Sexual bias in access to education, 1997
59 The sexual bias of work and pay, 1995
60 Women and economic activity, 1997
61 Women’s and men’s share of earnings, 1993

Urban bias

62 Urban bias in basic services
63 Levels of urbanization, 1998

Regional differences

64 Regional differences in Brazil and Mexico
65 Regional differences in India and China
66 Regional differences in Nigeria and South Africa
67 Regional differences in the USA and the EU

Race

68 Ethnic biases in the USA
69 The world as a macrocosm of apartheid

VI The international economy

International trade

70 Who exports what? The structure of world trade
71 Who exports where? The direction of world trade

72 The growing industrialization of trade
73 The North as a market for the South
74 The manufactured exports of the South
75 Winners and losers in trade, I
76 Winners and losers in trade, II
77 The problem of the terms of trade, 1960–1999

Foreign investment

78 The growing importance of international investment
79 Where the foreign investment in the South goes
80 The relative importance of foreign capital

International institutions

81 Multinational corporations of the North and the South, 1999
82 Who runs the IMF and the World Bank?
83 Who does the IMF run?

The external debt

84 The total size of the foreign debt
85 The present burden of the debt
86 Some causes and effects of the debt crisis
87 Positive and negative transfers: South to North aid
88 Different kinds of debt, 1999
89 Who are the creditors?

Development aid

90 Much money, little aid
91 The decline of aid, 1983–1998
92 Aid as a share of national income
93 North to South aid in total
94 North to South aid per head

VII The environment

95 How long will non-renewable resources last?
96 Energy use and pollution levels
97 Contrast in transportation
98 Tropical forests
99 A measure of sustainable human development

VIII Refugees and migration

100 The origin and destination of refugees, 1998
101 The main locations of forced migration, 1998
102 Who are the refugees?
103 Migration into Western Europe
104 Trans-Pacific migration
105 Migration in America
106 Immigrants to the USA
107 Migrants’ remittances: more important than aid

IX Repression and discrimination

108 The most militarized countries
109 The international arms trade, 1998
110 The death penalty in 2000
111 Differences in the rate of imprisonment
112 Prison in the USA, 1998
113 Lesbian and gay rights, 2000

X Inequality and history

114 The evolution of relative incomes, 1820–1997
115 The long-term polarization of world income, 1820–1997
116 Changes in inequality, 1950–1995
117 Contrasting movements in the hours of work, 1870–1992
118 The growth of literacy, 1850–1995
119 The expansion of schooling, 1820–1992
120 Rises and falls of life expectancy, 1820–1997
121 The combined evolution of income and human development, 1960–1997
122 The convergence of the Human Development Index over time, 1875–1995
123 Historical changes in the population of men and women, 1800–1995

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