Gnp Income Inequality

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What is important to note is that though statistical indicators of life expectancy were linked with GNP per capita over twentieth century, there are two other factors responsible for increasing life expectancy namely, one improved medical technologies and second, development of better public health services such as clean water, sanitation and the like. This brings home the realization that it is important how the GNP is utilized for institutional reforms to bring about development. Poverty Poverty and development can hardly co-exist and so it becomes essential to fight poverty. Now, it is only but natural to think that economic growth is definitely one sure way of poverty eradication and thus, the new widely shared economic myth that …show more content…

Inequality arises both within and across countries, if the perceived trickle down effect of growth is not realized in actuality as is usually the case. The widening disparity in a country slows down its development process which in turn creates inequality among countries as witnessed between underdeveloped or developing nation and developed nations. Cross country comparison of income inequality shows that income inequality aggravates the poverty for example, Brazil and Hungary though are rather close in levels with respect to GNP per capita, Brazil faces higher level of poverty due to unequal distribution of income. The income received by the richest 20 percent population in Hungary is 4.5 times more than the income earned by the poorest while this difference in case of Brazil is 30 times. (Soubbotina, 2004) This is just income inequality. Inequality however is not just limited income though but also manifests itself in terms of gender inequality (in terms of wage earned, education received as shown by the difference in girls and boys enrollment, etc) which has its own social impact on …show more content…

Having said that, I would like to say that it cannot be done away with altogether no matter what the anti liberalist might say because development if not interchangeable with economic growth is also not possible without growth. So what needs to be done is to construct better conditions for economic growth and make such use of the growth that can be justify the price paid to achieve it while dealing with the consequences generated in the process of economic

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