History and the inequality predicament

Abstract

Globalisation is affecting daily life almost everywhere, so it seemed logical when the 2005 UN Report on the World Social Situation, The Inequality Predicament, reported that economic inequality is dramatically increasing in Asia, as it has been in the rest of the world. This trend is embedded in spatial and social patterns reproduced over the last two centuries - patterns that comprise a deeper, more pervasive 'inequality predicament' than the UN dares to recognise.