The haves in Thailand have a lot — the country has one of the most inequitable income distributions in Asia, a wider gap between rich and poor than in China, Malaysia, the Philippines or Vietnam, according to a World Bank report.
And, it adds, "New York has the most inequitable school aid distribution in America".
These include environmental issues -- such as climate change and resource scarcity -- that disproportionately impact the poor and most vulnerable, as well as the inequitable distribution of wealth, income, and opportunity.
In the latter work he argues that social inequality has come about because men have allowed their God-given right of freedom to be usurped by the growth of competition, specialization and division of labour, and, most of all, by laws that consolidated the inequitable distribution of property.
Some of the most high-profile ethical issues in global health are the 'brain drain', inequitable distribution of resources (e.g. primary goods such as water, food or housing), gender or race inequality (discrimination), health system financing, the spread of infectious diseases, poverty, etc. (3).
The most core issue in conflicts over land concerns limited access to land, land succession problem, and inequitable distribution.
"Certain things are consistent: inequitable distribution of teachers, inequitable funding of schools, institutional racism.
"We're now seeing the hatchets fall: environmental problems, climate change, nitrogen run-off, inequitable distribution.
He argued that inequitable distribution of wealth could "wear down the social fabric".
Little has actually been done about such problems as the inequitable distribution of land & widespread malnutrition & poor housing.
