Now, with global orders for goods plunging, unemployment rising and factories closing, the cracks underlying China's nearly three decades of spectacular growth are becoming increasingly visible: inequality, corruption, injustice and pollution.
Cities across the Global South are known for starkly visible inequality, with clear borders demarcating rich from poor neighborhoods.
A new study expands on this research with a possible explanation: visible economic inequality.
He conveys China's dramatic inequalities, visible in both income and access to the Communist party.
There are gradual improvements in almost all indicators of child well-being in Moldova, although with more visible co-existing inequalities.
Speculative towers for rich investors unite Fogey and Progressive in opposition, driven on one hand by the squeeze on affordable housing and the visible expression of inequality; on the other, by their oppressive ugliness.
I'm surprised that this highly visible effect of inequality isn't discussed more often, given what we know from other statistics: the poorest fifth of adults are at significantly higher risk of developing a mental illness, while a 2011 survey suggested that people from minority ethnic backgrounds are six times more likely to be admitted to hospital because of mental health problems.
"The act of bringing back establishing this quintessential trope on the site of the worn-out plantations is meant to render visible the abject inequality sustaining contemporary art.
The visible scandal of inequality, which was apparent in the U.S. during the Great Depression, and in Europe after the war, barely exists, particularly if you choose not to look.
Brittan's work reminds us that, despite incredible change, ideologies that justify inequality are most visible when the forms of inequality they justify are under siege.
