Essays on Economic Issues

Tim Dunlop famously wrote, “inequality can be social, economic and democratic, but at its heart is about the exercise of power, who has it and who doesn’t”. As power and politics are inextricably linked to each other, in this light, growing economic inequality is clearly...

Richard Wilkinson studied the social consequences of income inequality and how mixed factors affect happiness. He presents a good deal of experimental data, showing that there are much more equal societies in developing countries. The income gap between the rich and the poor is smaller....

Economic inequality is also referred to as income inequality, which can be defined as the unequal distribution of income and economic opportunities in a country between different groups. The economic system of the world, especially the developed countries like the USA, have high economic inequality....

The aim of this research is to identify and explain the causes behind issues concerning the misuse of foreign aid and the imbalances created by international trade, while providing concepts for potential long-term solutions. The research will go over the respective issues, detailing the issues...

When we take a look into the United States, the first idea about the United States that enters my head is that we are the leading country in all of the world. Right off the bat that can come off as, we are the best...

Have ever considered how well your education was due to your family’s financial satiability? Many professors and social workers argue their opinions on the subject, of how economic inequality affects children’s education. In the article “Why American Schools Are More Unequal Than We Thought,” Susan...

In the United States, economic inequality has risen in recent decades. Anyone who has looked at data on this issue knows that the rise has mainly been caused by the ‘pulling away’ of the rich from everyone else in America. The top 10% of our...

Over the past few decades, America has been experiencing a lot of alterations. One of those changes involves the population growth of the country. The growth rate in America has been rapidly growing since 1950. Decreased death rate and an increase in average human age...

When I hear the word economic inequality the first thing, I think of is unfairness, how the income and wealth being distrusted throughout the population of the country is not right. So I will talk about top income shares. The chart shows us the income...

The management of forest resource in Zanzibar currently brought a serious debate among people discussing the causes of the mismanagement of forest resources in Zanzibar. Some feels that mismanagement is influenced by the social economic reasons such as poverty and low family income. Others think...

We are living in a time when the demarcation between the economic systems for feeding fast and the question of distributive justice is becoming a business of none. The process of globalization has pushed the income inequality to a higher level, especially in developing countries....

Economic inequality has a wide variety of meaningsю In my essay I discuss income inequality and wealth inequality. Economic growth is a long-term expansion in the productive potential of the economy. Common economic theory predicts that high levels of inequality will cause a decline in...

The division between the rich and the poor in the United States has increased to the greatest degree in more than fifty years, according to the news article by Aimee Picchi CBS News. The key to this problem is to understand that economic inequality is...

Economic inequality impacts students level of education as children from poor families can’t afford expensive schools and can only afford low quality of education. It comes to as no surprise that the parents of current black school girls have poor educational outcomes because of the...

The purpose of this paper is to explain and analyse the long-term trends in economic inequality within developed countries since the Industrial Revolution. This essay focuses on within-country inequalities for the purpose of narrowing the scope, but also because of the lack of consensus in...

What is your impression about the news from countries in Africa like Nigeria and South Africa? Is it about crime rates or the skinny child who have to work instead of study at school? Have you ever thought about those who are suffering from hungry...

Economic inequality is a political problem as it is the outcome of ineffective governance of a capitalistic institutional mechanism that has led to an unequal distribution of wealth. With capitalism placing emphasis on profit, the production of wealth has been more prioritized over the distribution....

Indeed, Africa is greatly rich in natural as well as human resources, which are basis for the prosperity of a given country. However, the continent is globally the poorest and underdeveloped. Natural calamities play a pivotal role in downgrading Africa’s productivity. Natural disasters in the...

Rwanda is one the poorest countries of the world: its HPI-1 is of the 44,5%. The causes of economic weakness are to be found in the distance from the sea, in the economic dependence on the export of tea and coffee and in the precarious...