Exam 27: Inequality and Social Policy

What are the two ways to define inequality and what is the significance of the differences between them?

What does the World Values Survey tell us about attitudes towards inequality?

How is gender inequality considered the most common form of inequality? How does it compare to other group inequalities?

What is social security and why are do so few people have access to it in the developing world?

How do inequality measures compare to poverty measures?

What are the three primary socio-economic boundaries in India?

Different from South Africa, Latin American countries' social group differences do not have colonial origins.

In Latin America and East Asia, corporatism has helped to shape public policies.

In both rich and developing countries, income can be accurately measured.

Which actors are involved in social policy implementation in both developing and richer countries?

The World Values Survey is conducted by the World Bank to assess perception of its policies.

Good social policy analysis is also political analysis.

The Gini coefficient is the most commonly used measure of poverty.

How can the literature on corporatism make sense of public policy in Latin American and South East Asia?

Which countries are the most inequal in the world?

India's social group differences were reinforced by colonialism.

What process undid many of the gains made in the provision of social policy following decolonization?

What kinds of groups focus on the intrinsic arguments to inequality?

How is the measurement based on income shares done? How does it reflect inequality?

What are social funds?