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Inequalities impede the achievement of SDGs
17-9-2018
The World Social Science Report was launched by the AUB on September 13 and 14, under the title, ‘Challenging Inequalities – Pathways to a Just World’. The report warned that increasing inequalities could undermine the sustainability of economies, communities and societies by weakening efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 20130. The report, published in Arabic in collaboration between the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, the Arab Alternatives Forum and UNESCO, stressed the significant gaps in social science data with regard to inequalities in different parts of the world. It called for vigorous research into the relation between economic inequalities on the one hand, and disparities in gender, education and health, on the other. And while it showed a 5-fold increase in studies related to inequalities and social justice in academic publications between the years 1992-2013, the report mentioned that many studies don’t pay adequate attention to inequalities outside the areas of income and wealth, like for example, health, education and gender. The report also pointed to 7 interrelated dimensions of inequality: economic, political, social, cultural, environmental, spatial and knowledge-based. These dimensions, the report maintained, create vicious circles of inequalities that pass from one generation to the next. The report stressed that the focus of social science research into inequalities is generally seen in developed countries that keep reliable data, whereas developing states don’t have similar reliable data. According to the report, research has shown a rise in cases of inequalities, noting that 1% of the population owns half of the world’s wealth, and that the wealth of the richest individuals numbering 62 is equivalent to the wealth of the poorest half of humanity. (An Nahar, September 15, 2018)
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