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Title: Income Distribution and Undernutrition


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Income Distribution and Undernutrition
  • Text extracted from
  • The World Food Problem
  • Leathers Foster, 2004

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Poorest of the Poor
  • Live in third world
  • Mostly landless
  • Work for others, menial jobs
  • Poorly educated
  • Illiterate
  • Superstitious
  • Squatters who live in huts
  • Almost no food
  • Fragmented household
  • Debt to relatives or lenders

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Per capita incomes differ
  • Democratic Republic Congo 80/yr
  • Switzerland 38,330
  • Average person in Switzerland makes 500X more
    than in Mozambique.
  • If compute purchasing power parity, difference
    between richest and poorest countries is 80X

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Purchasing Power Parity
2003
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Global Incomes
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Distribution of World GNP (1989)
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Human Development Index
  • Measures quality of life
  • High HDI
  • High income countries
  • Low HDI
  • Low income countries
  • HDI not perfectly correlated with income

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Gini Coefficient
  • Gini coefficient
  • Based on area of crescent made by Lorenz curve
  • measures inequity of wealth
  • A/AB
  • Gini index Gini coefficient x 100
  • Lowest inequity is in Japan
  • Gini coefficient .249
  • Gini index 24.9
  • Richest 20 controls 35 of income
  • Highest inequity is in Brazil
  • Gini index 60.7
  • Richest 20 controls 64 of income

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Global Gini Coefficients
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port_2007-2008.png/800px-Gini_Coefficient_World_Hu
man_Development_Report_2007-2008.png
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Kuznets Curve
  • As a country develops, rich must get richer first
  • Therefore inequity will increase initially
  • Later, inequity will drop as prosperity increases

Data from 75 countries
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Wealthy out-compete poor for food
  • Can outbid poor for food
  • Also purchase more livestock
  • Herd becomes more dependent on grain
  • Price of grain is bid up
  • Harder for the poor to buy grain

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Overall inequity declining slowly
  • Global Gini coefficients
  • .67 in 1980
  • .65 in 1990
  • .63 in 2000
  • .62 in 2005

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Extreme Inequity Increasing
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Child Labor
  • 250 million children work worldwide
  • 22 of workforce in Asia
  • 17 of workforce in Latin America
  • 1/3 of children in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Jobs
  • Agriculture
  • Textiles
  • Maids and services
  • Construction and manufacturing
  • Prostitution
  • Many sold into debt bondage
  • To pay parents debt or as collateral
  • Advance on wages

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U.S. Poor are Wealthy
  • Poverty income
  • 9,359/yr
  • Person at poverty line in U.S.
  • has higher income than 80 of people in the
    world
  • 97 poor households in U.S. have color TV

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U.S. Middle Class Decline
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U.S. Inequity increasing
  • Gini coefficients
  • 1968 38.6
  • 1970 39.4
  • 1980 40.3
  • 1990 42.2
  • 2000 46.2
  • 2007 47.0

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Rich in U.S. getting richer
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Hunger in the U.S.A.
  • 36.3 million people live in households that
    experience hunger
  • or the risk of hunger
  • Includes 13 million children
  • More than one in ten households in the United
    States (11.2 percent).
  • 1/5 of U.S. food ends up in the landfill
  • Source Bread for the World Institute (2004)


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