Description
Over the past decades enormous progress has been made in reducing poverty. While 45 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty in 1990, today the figure is 10.4 percent. Since the beginning of the 20th century, life expectancy has doubled. A gigantic improvement. However, this progress is very unevenly distributed and there are also opposing trends. 80 percent of the poorest people in income live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. People in sub-Saharan Africa die 13 years earlier than the global average. Two thirds of the world’s population live in countries where the gap between high and low incomes has widened in recent decades. And rising temperatures and environmental hazards caused by system-induced climate change do not affect those who cause it, but make the poorest people in the world even poorer. How are life chances distributed in the world? Why is social inequality increasing worldwide despite an overall increase in material wealth? How is it possible that during the Corona crisis millionaires continued to increase their wealth unchecked? Why are crises often attempted to be overcome with the very measures that created them? Kick-off event as an introduction and overview on the topic of “Global Inequalities” to prepare a good ground for the virtual debate on November 13-14, 2020 “Global inequalities in the context of the covid-19”.| Period | 11 Nov 2020 |
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| Event title | Global inequalities in the context of the covid-19 |
| Event type | Other |
| Location | AustriaShow on map |
Fields of science
- 504 Sociology