1. Introduction to Sociology
SOC101Y
Introduction to Sociology
Professor Robert Brym
Lecture #13
Global Inequality
23 Jan 13

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3. Manila, Philippines
Cairo, Egypt
Dhaka, Bangladesh

4. Average Annual Income, by Country, 2008

5. USA Germany France Italy UK Canada S. Korea Japan Brazil Others*
Half the world’s people have after-tax income below $1,225 a year. In contrast, a person with after-tax income of $34,000+ per year is in the world’s top 1 percent of income earners (= 60 million people). This graph shows how those 60 million people are distributed geographically.
= 1 million people
* Switzerland, Spain, Australia, Netherlands, Taiwan, Chile, Singapore, etc.

6. Gross Domestic Product Per Person, Sub-Saharan Africa and High-Income Countries, 1975-2010
143% growth
GDP per person (US dollars)
11.6% shrinkage
Region
Note: Gross Domestic Product is the dollar value of goods and services produced in a region in a year. Data are in 2005 dollars.

7. GDP Growth in 2000 Dollars, 1969-2008 The Chinese economy
was 27.2 times bigger
in 2008 than in 1969.
Growth in
00s of %
The Canadian economy
was 3.4 times bigger
in 2008 than in 1969.

8. Three Concepts of World Inequality
Inequality of income for
each individual in the world
Inequality of average income for each country,
weighted for population size
Gini Index of Inequality
Brazil
Inequality of average income for each country
Year
Note: A Gini index of 0 indicates that every income recipient receives exactly the same amount of income. A Gini index of 1.0 indicates that a single income recipient receives all of the income. To put things in perspective, note that the Gini index of inequality for individuals worldwide is about .70, while the Gini index for individuals in Brazil, which has one of the highest levels of inequality of any country, is about .52.

9. Global Priorities, 2011 (in US$ billions)
Additional annual cost, basic education for everyone in the world
Additional annual cost, water and sanitation for everyone in the world
Annual dog and cat food sales, USA
Additional annual cost, reproductive health care for all women in the world 18.6
Additional annual cost, basic health and nutrition for everyone in the world 20.1
Annual global perfume sales
Annual TV advertising, USA
Annual global revenue, strip clubs
Annual global revenue, cocaine sales (2008)
Annual beer sales, USA
Annual global arms sales ,700.0

10. Life Expectancy and Income, 200 Countries over 200 Years

11. Indicators of Gender Inequality
Ratio of males to females in primary, secondary, and tertiary education. The higher the ratio, the higher the level of gender inequality.
Men as a percent of parliamentarians in the lower house (or the single house in unicameral political systems). The higher the ratio, the higher the level of gender inequality.
Participation rate of women in the paid labour force. The lower the rate, the higher the level of gender inequality.
Prevalence of female genital mutilation. The higher the prevalence, the higher the level of gender inequality.

12. Main Determinants of Gender Inequality Worldwide: Multiple Regression Analysis
1. GDP per capita (-)
Effect of variation in economic development for countries matched on percent Muslim and former communist regime
Effect of variation in percent
Muslim for countries matched on
economic development and former
communist regime
Variation in
gender inequality
2. Percent Muslim (+)
Effect of variation in former communist
regime for countries matched on economic development and percent Muslim
3. Former communist
regime (-)

13. Modernization Theory
Global inequality results from inadequacies in poor societies themselves, including lack of:
capital
Western business techniques
stable governments
a Western mentality emphasizing savings, investment, innovation, education, high achievement, and self-control in having children

14. Dependency Theory I
For 250 years, the most powerful countries in the world have impoverished the least powerful countries as a matter of state policy.
Thus, the countries of the “Third World” or “Global South” accounted for 73% of world industrial production in 1750 but only 7.5% in 1913; in 1913, the world’s 12 richest country accounted for 90% of world industrial production.

15. Dependency Theory II
Why? The Industrial Revolution enabled Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Russia, and the United States to amass enormous wealth, which they used to establish powerful armed forces to subdue and then annex or colonize most of the rest of the world between the middle of the 18th and the middle of the 20th century.
Main exception: Japan (considered less valuable than China and India)

16. Dependency Theory III
Neo-colonialism established by creating a system of dependency involving three main elements:
Substantial foreign investment
Support for authoritarian governments
Mounting debt

17. Core, Periphery and Semiperiphery (Wallerstein)
Core: major sources of capital and technology (USA, Japan, Germany)
Periphery: major sources of raw materials and cheap labour (most former colonies)
Semiperiphery: former colonies that are making considerable headway in their attempts to become prosperous (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore; Israel; more recently, China, India, Brazil)

18. How Semi-Peripheral Countries Differ from Peripheral Countries
Type of colonialism
infrastructural support?
Geopolitical position
helpful to USA?
State policy
statist, pro-growth?
Social structure
land reform; homogeneous?