Question

What are formal systems of inequality? How can influences of such practices be minimised?
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(Class 11,Political theory, equality chapter) ​

Answer 1

Answer:

At a microeconomic level, inequality increases ill health and health spending and reduces the educational performance of the poor. These two factors lead to a reduction in the productive potential of the work force. At a macroeconomic level, inequality can be a brake on growth and can lead to instability.

Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption.Another way we can decrease inequality is to increase social services such as the following: increase food stamps for poor people; raise the min- imum wage; increase social security for people in the poor, working, and middle classes; increase unemployment compensation; create more college grants and loans for people ...