Title: Is the world flat?
1Is the world flat?
CHRISTOPHER DYE
2Is the world flat?
CHRISTOPHER DYE
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4Inequality a mean kind of variation
5Twin peaks the unequal world
6Berlin 9 November 1989
7The Cold War's final frontier
Infant mortality/1000 North 42 South 6
Years lost to chronic illness () North 46 South
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9Friedman's flatteners
- 1 No boundaries
- 2 Netscape
- 3 Workflow software
- 4 Open sourcing
- 5 Outsourcing
- 6 Offshoring
- 7 Supply chaining
- 8 Insourcing
- 9 In-forming
- 10 Digital "Steroids"
10Representing one's country?
11 Bangalore the poverty gradient runs steeply
down from Infosys
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13The Great Divergence, 1800-2000
- Growing differences in income per person arise
because - 1. Variable efficiency of production per worker
- 2. Medicine lowers subsistence wage
- 3. High technology raises wage premium for
skilled labour
14The World is not Flat Inequality and
Injustice in our Global Economy Nancy Birdsall
"Inequality in developing countries stalls
economic growth vicious circles inhibit the
creation of effective social and political
institutions"
15Gini a digression on measuring inequality
Gini index Equality 0 Inequality 1
Cumulative share earned
GINI
Cumulative share of people from low income
16Gini out of the bottle
rich-poor income gap widening in most countries
10
8
6
4
Change in Gini (, 1990s-2000s)
2
0
-2
-4
-6
USA
India
Nepal
Brazil
China
Japan
Taiwan
S Korea
Viet Nam
Pakistan
Malaysia
Thailand
Germany
Indonesia
Cambodia
Philippines
17Increasing inequality among countries
within different regions of the world
E Europe
OECD
S Asia
60
E Asia
SS Africa
L America
50
Income Gini
40
30
20
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
18 Birdsall failing markets, failing health?
Income inequality without opportunity or
mobility, also Undermines public policy Inhibits
collective decision-making Disfavours those
without assets Raises costs for poor
19The Bottom BillionPaul Collier
- 58 countries, mostly in Africa, persistently low
income, trapped by - Conflict 73
- Valuable natural resources 29
- Geography (landlocked) 30
- Bad governance 76
- Health at the mercy of economics?
20Convergence, Period!
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
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25Health in anUnequal World
26Life expectancy is converging in low-
and high-income countries
80
Low-middle income
High income
70
60
Life expectancy (years)
50
40
30
1960
1990
2002
27Life expectancy increased most in Asia and
L America, least in Africa and OECD
1970-75
80
2000-05
70
Life expecancy at birth
60
50
40
OECD
SS Africa
East Asia
South Asia
Arab States
Lat America
Central Europe
28Life expectancy
gains and losses worldwide since 1960
10
1960-1990
8
1990-2002
1900-1950
6
4
1850-1900
Years gained per decade
2
0
-2
-4
Britain
E Asia
S Asia
Eurasia
Mid East
SS Africa
L America
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32Gorbachev, Glasnost Green Cross "cultivating a
new sense of global interdependence"
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37Health in Unequal Britain
38 "Riven by class and no social mobility"
- The Guardian
- No change in 10 years of Labour
- rule
- 89 say they are judged by class
- Poll shows deep North-South
- gap
- North-south divide will narrow
- but not rich-poor gap
- Wide life expectancy gap
- between rich and poor
39Variation in life expectancy in Englandfrom
northern uplands to southern lowlands
40Smoking deaths are higher in northern
England and London
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42Obesity in Englandhighest in midlands and north
Lowest in London South east South west
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44Whitehall civil servants lower
grades die younger
45"The attainment by all peoples of the highest
possible level of health"
46Who wants to fix it?"a common consensus to
invest in the future"?
47The post-war health agenda
- 1946 World Health Organization
- Marshall Plan
- UK National Health Service
(welfare state) - --------------------------------------------------
------ - 1950s "Vertical" eradication programs
- 1960s Barefoot doctors - community
- care
- 1978 Primary Health Care (Alma Ata)
- 1979 Children's Revolution
48"Health for All"
- Halfdan Mahler (WHO 1978)
- Moral leadership for social justice
Primary Health Care Appropriate technology Care
in the community Link health and social
development
Critics too costly, politically threatening
49"Children's Revolution"
- Jim Grant (UNICEF 1979)
- Finite resources, brief political opportunities
GOBI Growth monitoring Oral rehydration Breast
feeding Immunization
Critics narrowly technocentric
501980s the neo-liberal consensus
- "Health sector reform"
- limit public expenditure, decentralization,
economic efficiency - "Structural adjustment"
- trade liberalization, privatization of public
services, export economy
51Clinical economicsThe end of poverty by 2025
- You two?
- "I am a Jeff Sachs groupie" (Bono)
52Incentives William Easterly
53 Bottom Billion Paul Collier
"The grievous truth is that the bottom billion
will notand cannotbe freed from poverty in our
lifetimes."
- Targeted AID
- Military interventions
- Anti-corruption laws
- Concessional trade agreements
- Help your local hero
"international welfare for a long timeto bring
minimal decency to standards for living"
54Technological fix Bill Gates
- World Economic Forum, Davos 2006
- Bill Gates pledges another 900m for TB control
55Social fix Michael Marmot
56The world is getting flatterbut deep troughs
remain
- Poverty gap -- inequality sometimes puts a
brake on economic growth, and on health gains - Health is getting better on average in most parts
of the world globalization? - Health gaps (life span) have narrowed with
poverty gaps, perhaps even faster but - Some countries and populations have been left
behind, mostly Africa - Technical solutions to promote health equality
easier than social and economic solutions