... by The Regents of the University of California 2024 China common prosperity welfare redistribution pensions inequality “[T]he CCP has opted to rely on interregional rather than interclass redistribution to avoid public resistance and contention.” In early 2021, President Xi Jinping...

...Ellison Tjirera German colonial rule, followed by South African occupation, left Namibia with lasting patterns of extreme inequality in land ownership. Reform plans issued in recent decades have yielded little relief for the landless majority, including urban dwellers. Despite the emergence of new...

... narrative of science and finance teaming up against a virus and delivering a silver bullet in the form of a new vaccine, rather than recognizing that a health emergency reflects patterns of inequality within and across countries and other social factors that need to be addressed. Given the interconnection...

...Myungji Yang Over the quarter-century since the Asian financial crisis, social inequality has become more visible, and precariousness is now a part of daily life for many in South Korea. Examining patterns of disparity in different areas and the ways in which social discontent with increasing...

... urbanization inequality violence crime terrorism Karachi’s history has been wrought from Partition, massive in-migration, unchecked growth, and multiple population displacements. In this megacity, Samira Shackle’s background as a British-born journalist of Pakistani heritage mirrors the dilemma...

..., corruption in the delivery of economic support, and existing health inequalities. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 COVID-19 pandemic Bangladesh governance social services public health inequality Although Bangladesh has faced political unrest, military coups...

.... Paradoxically, then, the 2021 election, with insubstantial candidates who failed to capture the public imagination, presented an opening for the exploitation of social inequalities and the old and debilitated radical tradition—and with them, of history. On July 28, 2021, Peru celebrated the bicentenary...

... blaming the climate and weather for crises that stem from inequality—avoiding blame for conditions that they created and could redress. This is not to deny that they are changing the climate; they certainly are. But they also created the precarities on the ground that allow ordinary or new climate events...

... even more vulnerable, unable to practice social distancing and forced to continue with marginal work such as scavenging to eke out a living. Drawing on interviews with residents of a Johannesburg settlement, the authors emphasize how urban space structures inequalities in every aspect of everyday life...

... their children with remote learning, which threatens to worsen labor market inequality in India. But Dalits, at the bottom of the caste ladder, have recently. Formerly untouchable castes are still among the most marginalized and stigmatized groups. Some readers might imagine that Indian castes...

... of education, but that it could lead to restrictions on school choice, provincial autonomy, and linguistic diversity, while imposing a narrow vision of national identity. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Pakistan education inequality Imran Khan Some 20 million 5–16...

...Ana Santos Rutschman The scramble among nations for limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccines has drawn attention to long-standing inequities in public health between the global North and South. The COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX) is one of several initiatives to pool resources...

... conditions, like cardiovascular disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, conditions that tend to be more common among older adults. COVID-19 pandemic health care inequality aging social policy The coronavirus pandemic has devastated the health...

... racial inequality middle class social mobility corruption African National Congress education employment business Jacob Zuma Cyril Ramaphosa 169 The precarity of daily existence for so many black middle-class South Africans is heightened by dependence on political connections. South...

... Anirudh Krishna India social mobility inequality education employment jobs caste system health care women's rights Narendra Modi 123 How to extend equality of opportunity across a vast and growing population is one of the most important problems facing India to- day. The ideal...

... reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Tomasz Inglot Eastern Europe social mobility middle class inequality communism employment labor inequality populism labor migration welfare family policy Poland Hungary 96 The region has seen a radical shift from...

... of California Frank-Borge Wietzke social mobility middle class poverty inequality economic policy politics identity developing countries China India Brazil 16 Political conflicts can flare up when new, increasingly vocal lower-middle- income groups enter the political arena and when...

... of California Barbara Prainsack health care precision medicine DNA genome genetic medical technology regulation privacy inequality disease data 11 This new way of thinking about health and disease has tangible implications for when and how health-care interventions are set in motion...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Erol Balkan Ahmet Öncü Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan globalization middle class social mobility inequality education culture religion Justice and Development Party 350 The AKP s neoliberal...

... inequality social mobility 298 In the course of the Great Recession, already fragile black and Hispanic middle- class households lost huge amounts of wealth, which had often been painstak- ingly accumulated over many decades. The Great Recession and the Destruction of Minority Wealth DOUGLAS S. MASSEY...