Global Uprising: Global Uprising: SHIRLEY BABOOLAL
POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
According to David B. Grusky and Ravi This newfound concern with poverty and inequality which dates back to at least the early 1990s(see Atkinson 1997) may be attributed to such factors as (1) the dramatic increase in economic inequality in many countries over the last quarter century. (2) the rise of a global village in which disparities in the standard of living have become more widely visible and difficult to ignore. (3) a growing commitment to a concept of human entitlements that include the rights to seek or secure employment and thereby be spared extreme deprivation. (4) an emerging concern that poverty and inequality may have negative macro-level effects on terrorism and (5) a growing awareness of the negative individual-level effects of poverty and health, political participation and a host of other life conditions.
" The Underclass has been the subject of considerable debate among scholars of urban poverty".
Will it continue?
Well according to Caroline Thomas at the dawn of the twenty-first century, despite fifty years of official development policies and despite huge advances in science and technology, inequalities between and within states are growing, and almost a third of humanity continues to live in abject poverty. There is indeed reason for concern since poverty and inequality poses a security risk for the entire world.
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