Talk:International inequality

Peer review request

Editors interested in this topic might like to take part in peer review on a new version of Global justice I've been working on. Cheers, --Sam Clark 11:29, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The cause of International inequality section seems to be very badly written. It has a very left wing POV and includes a great deal of original research which is uncited. Arguments about trade being the cause of inequality should either be removed or properly cited.

I deleted the problematic part:

• "Inequality in global trade may be seen as the root cause of the development gap, and all the other factors are exacerbated by this inequality. For example, pandemic disease, such as HIV/AIDS, these worsen a countries development state, LEDC's are less able to cope, corruption, is also linked to trade,as is debt and indeed wars, which are often trade related, in addition population growth, all of these factors are linked to inequlities in global trade. For example take this main factor, if it suddenly became "equal" trade, then all the other factors would change, e.g. reduction of debt, antiretrovirus treatment could be afforded, therefore it is inequality in global trade that is the root cause, and its continuation, via the phenomonem of globalisation causes the widening of the development gap." Another Wikipedian 20:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

This article needs to updated as there have been massive economic shifts over the last 8 years. There is large room for error as currency fluctions could cause nations to appear at times wealthier or poorer then in reality. -CecPB (talk) 05:51, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Graph improvement needed

Image:Exponential Pattern in GDP per capita distribution.PNG is not particularly helpful in getting an intuitive grasp of the distribution, especially for readers not familiar with logarithms (most of them). A linear-linear plot would be better. This would also help illustrate the two groups of countries described as "The major component of the world's income inequality". -- Beland 01:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Intelligence Citations Bibliography for Articles Related to IQ Testing

I see the article mentions IQ testing as one comparison among nations. I have posted a bibliography of Intelligence Citations for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human intelligence and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library at a university with an active research program in those issues (and to another library that is one of the ten largest public library systems in the United States) and have been researching these issues since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research and to suggest new sources to me by comments on that page. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 23:15, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Challenged statement removed

* There exists 10,1 millions of US$-Millionaires. They (less than 0,2 % of the world population) own over 40,7 trillion US$. This is more than double as high as the 90% poor people (6 billion people) own.

An IP just changed it from 10 million billionaires to 10 million millionaires. A statement like this really needs a citation, and this has been uncited for 4 months, so I'm moving it here until someone finds something. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 03:04, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

tagged causes

There appear to be no real secondary references for this section, and searching around leads to nothing concrete in this area. I suspect this entire section is just synthesis. Feedback invited. aprock (talk) 23:31, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Unless there is some objection, I'll be removing these sections unless secondary sources can be added which provide the appropriate context. aprock (talk) 07:56, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and removed the section. Feedback invited. aprock (talk) 22:14, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Logically Impossible and no citation

"6% of the world population own 52% of the global assets. The richest 2% of the world population own more than 51% of the global assets, the richest 10% own 85% of the global assets."-am I missing a reason not to delete this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.10.125.53 (talk) 23:05, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Quality

This page is an example of inequality: it has high importance but only "Start-Class" quality. Many lower importance pages on rich people have at least "GA-Class" quality.

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Is poverty decreasing?

We could use some more eyes on this: Talk:List_of_common_misconceptions#poverty. Also, there is the question of whether the proposed misconception should be added to an article on poverty. --David Tornheim (talk) 02:10, 19 October 2018 (UTC)