Inequality – What can be done ?

Inequality : what can be done ? ANTHONY

Health Promotion in an Age of Normative Equity and Rampant Inequality

The world was different when the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion was released 30 years ago. Concerns over the environment and what we now call the ‘social determinants of health’ were prominent in 1986. But the acceleration of ecological crises and economic inequalities since then, in a more complex and multi-polar world, pose dramatically new challenges for those committed to the original ...

How Can a Global Social Support System Hope to Achieve Fairer Competiveness?; Comment on “A Global Social Support System: What the International Community Could Learn From the United States’ National Basketball Association”

Ooms et al sets out some good general principles for a global social support system to improve fairer global competitiveness as a result of redistribution. This commentary sets out to summarize some of the conditions that would need to be satisfied for it to level up gradients in inequality through such a social support system, using the National Basketball Association (NBA) example as a point ...

Global Income Inequality A review

Global inequality is a relatively recent topic. It was not until the early 1980s that the first calculations of inequality across world citizens were done.1 This is because in order to calculate global inequality, one needs to have data on (within-) national income distributions for most of the countries in the world, or at least for most of the populous and rich countries. But it is only from ...

The Impact of Sanctions on the Welfare Indicators of Urban and Rural Households of Iran

Extended Abstract Introduction: Economists interested in welfare issues are trying to estimate the effects of different policies implemented by governments on welfare with different indices. In addition, they are trying to analyze the effects of shocks and disruptions in economies to identify ways out of these crises because from the perspective of the welfare economy, the impact of shocks on ...