Talk:International inequality

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[edit] Peer review request

Editors interested in this topic might like to take part in peer review on a new version of Global justice I've been working on. Cheers, --Sam Clark 11:29, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The cause of International inequality section seems to be very badly written. It has a very left wing POV and includes a great deal of original research which is uncited. Arguments about trade being the cause of inequality should either be removed or properly cited.

I deleted the problematic part:

• "Inequality in global trade may be seen as the root cause of the development gap, and all the other factors are exacerbated by this inequality. For example, pandemic disease, such as HIV/AIDS, these worsen a countries development state, LEDC's are less able to cope, corruption, is also linked to trade,as is debt and indeed wars, which are often trade related, in addition population growth, all of these factors are linked to inequlities in global trade. For example take this main factor, if it suddenly became "equal" trade, then all the other factors would change, e.g. reduction of debt, antiretrovirus treatment could be afforded, therefore it is inequality in global trade that is the root cause, and its continuation, via the phenomonem of globalisation causes the widening of the development gap." Another Wikipedian 20:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

This article needs to updated as there have been massive economic shifts over the last 8 years. There is large room for error as currency fluctions could cause nations to appear at times wealthier or poorer then in reality. -CecPB (talk) 05:51, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Graph improvement needed

Image:Exponential Pattern in GDP per capita distribution.PNG is not particularly helpful in getting an intuitive grasp of the distribution, especially for readers not familiar with logarithms (most of them). A linear-linear plot would be better. This would also help illustrate the two groups of countries described as "The major component of the world's income inequality". -- Beland 01:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)