Blog 10

Global
Inequality is becoming far more evident in recent years than in the past. Mainly due to research that is becoming more
prominent rather than inequality actually spreading. Though there is always inequality between
people living in the same country, the spread varies extremely among
countries.
In this
article about the ranking of countries, based on the best place to live, many
countries that would have been on the top were ranked lower because of the inequality
the country faces. Though this is
extremely interesting, one of the most telling facts about this article is how
global inequality is ranked by continents.
Canada is
the sixth best country in the world in which to live, according to the United
Nations development ranking. However,
when adjusted for; equality such as income, life expectancy and education it
dropped to the twelfth place. Some
nations fare better when the equality of their society is taken into account. Distribution of income has become less equal
over the past several decades at the country level in much of the world,
although gaps in health and education have narrowed. Evidence points to the widespread
environmental degradation around the world.
“Forecasts
suggest that continuing failure to reduce the environmental risks and deepening
social inequalities threaten to slow decades of sustained progress by the world’s
poor majority—and even to reverse the global convergence in human development,”
stated the program administrator Helen Clark.
Some of the
African nations are at the bottom of the overall index when thinking about the
best place to live, but once you factor in the equality their ranking increase
which is the opposite of what happens with the most industrialized nations.
http://www.globalnews.ca/top+10/6442513568/story.html