Measuring Inequality

The first and only activity in this unit is the indicators of disparity. In partners, we looked at a variety of these indicators, all the way from GDP per capita to Literacy rates.

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Indicators of disparity

Module as defined in the IB Syllabus: Define indices of infant mortality, education, nutrition, income, marginalization and Human Development Index (HDI). Explain the value of the indices in measuring disparities across the globe.

Activity 1 - relevant terms defined

Activity 2 - inequality sampler

In order to understant the unit, it is important to know the relevant terms that are associated & related to inequality, disparity and development.

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Activity 3 - video Critique

Global Wealth Ineqaulity

I selected this short video becuse I felt it was a great introduction into wealth inequality.

It highlighted important statistics and information I was unaware of such as the fact that the 1% richest in the world share more wealth aming themselves than others in the world.

It also highlighted and compared the United States where a large amount of disparities occur with the world. 80% of the wprld hardly have any wealth, while the richest 2 percent have more than half of the worlds wealth.

It also mentioned aid, in the sense that rich countries attempt to make up for the disparities via aid to poor countries, which I thought was intruiging.

I believe this will also be a great resource tool for me in future.