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This highly original visual book is designed as a teaching aid - for students in conventional courses as well as readers wanting to tease out for themselves an understanding of the contemporary world in which we live. Tested prior to publication in a number of teaching settings, the author builds on the fact that there is now a large body of statistical information about today's highly unequal world. Presenting it in visual form can greatly stimulate discussion and understanding. Each topic has a two-page spread - innovative diagrams and charts on one side, and a short text prompting further thinking and discovery on the other.
Ideal as a supplementary teaching tool in Current Affairs, Development Studies and International Relations classes as well as in less formal training and education settings.
Ideal as a supplementary teaching tool in Current Affairs, Development Studies and International Relations classes as well as in less formal training and education settings.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781856498142 |
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| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date: | 04/01/2001 |
| Edition description: | REVISED |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.17(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.68(d) |
About the Author
Bob Sutcliffe started his academic career in 1964 as a research officer in the Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University. For four years he was also a fellow and tutor in economics at Jesus College, Oxford. He then went on to become a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) (1970-74). He is currently coordinator of research in Hegoa, University Institute for the Study of Development and the International Economy and a professor at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.
Bob Sutcliffe started his academic career in 1964 as a research officer in the Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University. For four years he was also a fellow and tutor in economics at Jesus College, Oxford. He then went on to become a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) (1970-74). He is currently coordinator of research in Hegoa, University Institute for the Study of Development and the International Economy and a professor at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.
Bob Sutcliffe started his academic career in 1964 as a research officer in the Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University. For four years he was also a fellow and tutor in economics at Jesus College, Oxford. He then went on to become a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) (1970-74). He is currently coordinator of research in Hegoa, University Institute for the Study of Development and the International Economy and a professor at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.
Table of Contents
Introduction: our unequal world The data, the graphs and the text Glossary of frequently used technical terms Acknowledgements 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 percent get 12. Who is hyper-rich? 13. What the poorest 10 percent 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 18. Details of the city 19. World distribution II: unequal terrain 20. Unequal rewards for work 21. Income and human development compared 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 Sex 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 Sources of the data
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