Democracy, Religion and Inequality University of Groningen Faculty of Economics and Business Bachelor Thesis International Economics and Business Name Student: Yitian Jing Student ID Number: s2012790 Student email: y.jing@student.rug.nl Date Thesis: Jun. 5th, 2012 Name Supervisor: Dr. Robbert K. J. Maseland First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to my advisor, Dr. R. K. J. Maseland, for his academic guidance and encouragement throughout the
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Occupy Wall Street By: Jennifer Pates 2/1/2013 Professor Chester Galloway Bus301: Business Ethics I have to admit that even though the Occupy Wall Street Movement has been all over the news I did not truly understand the stance of it, nor did I really get involved with it. While doing research for this paper I was able to get a better understanding of the basis of the movement as well as the facts pertaining to it. The movement started on Wall Street but has spread across the US. The basis
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Name Professor Course Date Inequality in China Over the past few years, China’s economy has been booming and, therefore, lifting millions of its citizens above the poverty line. Consequently, China’s GDP has increased, implying widening of the gap between the rich and the poor. According to Aljazeera, in 2010 China recorded a very high Gini coefficient of 0.61 (Duggan, “Income inequality on the rise in China”) The Gini coefficient shows income distribution in a country, and hence inequality
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1) Derived demand is used in economics to describe the demand that is placed on goods or a good or service as a consequence of changes in the price for some other related good or service. It is a demand for some physical or intangible item where a market exists for both related goods and services in question. The derived demand can have a significant impact on the derived good's market price. The concept of derived demand helps to control the demand for labor through one product needing the use of
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Occupy Wall Street Movement Business Ethics 309 Discuss the moral and economic implications involved in the movement. September 17, 2011 is the day the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City. The main issues include social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government according to The New York Times. The mix of moral foundations based on ideas from the anthropologist Richard Shweder, outline six
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Every American dreams of finding a job that pays well so that they may live comfortably and take care of their loved onesfor years to come. Most Americans hope to find some way to make a living that they enjoy, something that they view as productive. Unfortunately, many do not have this luxury. In our society, a good portion of the population is forced to hold the base of our country in place while hardly being redeemed for their time and effort, and thus the problem of income inequality. Numbers
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Urban-rural Rising Income Inequality in China As a developing country, China is trying to develop its economy and solving the threat of poverty since the economic reform. As a well-known economist Arthur Lewis said that "development must be inegalitarian because it does not start in every part of the economy at the same time" in 1954 (Lewis, 1954). It is also true for China. The income inequality issue between poor and rich increased faster, which has a negative impact as China tries to become a
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Education and Income Inequality: A Meta-Regression Analysis Abdul Jabbar Abdullah* Hristos Doucouliagos Elizabeth Manning - FIRST DRAFT - Please do not quote without permission from the authors September 2011 Abstract This paper revisits the literature that investigates the effects of education on inequality. Specifically, the paper provides a comprehensive quantitative review of the extant econometrics literature through a meta-regression analysis of 64 empirical studies that collectively
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INTERPRETATION Human Development Index (HDI) HDI measures the relative distance between a country’s achievement and what is possible based on socio-economic indicators of life expectancy, combine primary, secondary and tertiary school enrolments, adult literacy, and PPP GDP per capita. The value of the HDI index can vary between 0 and 1. Thus: HDI > 0.800: High Human Development economy 0.500 < HD < 0.799: Medium Human Development economy HDI < 0
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1. | Evidence shows that children from poor communities typically have: *A. | reduced opportunities to acquire human capital. | B. | increased opportunities to acquire human capital. | C. | equal opportunities to acquire human capital, but choose not to acquire as much on average than others. | D. | equal opportunities to acquire human capital, and choose to acquire more on average than others. | | Children from poor communities typically have reduced educational and employment opportunities
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