While Costa Rica has shown obvious advancements in macroeconomic performance and free trade zones over the past decade, the gap of income inequality has, nonetheless, widened. Unlike other Latin American countries, so far Costa Rica has failed to mitigate inequality. According to the OECD estimate based on Gini coefficient, the...

A Modern Theorist answers by saying that our shirt is providing opportunities for people like Jasmine whereas a World Systems Theorist answers that our shirt is taking advantage of a desperate population like Jasmine. Personally, I found the World Systems Theory to better explain the case of Jasmine by proposing...

Introduction The rapid growth of social media injustices and inequality is alarming and is overwhelming the capacity of states and the civil societies despite the fact that the spread and impact are threatening. It is evident through which even the top officials in governments are finding hard to fight the...

Government-imposed barriers and the complex labor market serve to maintain existing inequalities. From an international point of view, the government-imposed restrictions are the number one cause of barriers that have led to economic inequality in many countries. In the 21st-century, international trade has been a source of hope to boost...

The most important element of social stratification, as I have taken it from this term, is how it seems to be an inevitable and complex system in virtually any culture. It is a framework, in a sense, and one based upon a wide variety of factors. Gender, economic status, class,...