Issues in Global Human Inequality

The capacity to enlarge human capabilities and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is severely circumscribed by the climate crisis.

The evidence that climate change has accelerated in the past 30 years and is man-made is irrefutable.

The vast majority of the countries of the world, including Canada, have agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals as the objective of social, economic and environmental policy until 2030. Yet few people in the developed countries know of the Sustainable Development Goals and what they seek to achieve.

The Millennium Development Goals was the framework that was used to seek to enlarge human capabilities in the developing countries between 2000 and 2015.

The vast majority of the countries of the world, including Canada, have agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals as the objective of social, economic and environmental policy until 2030. Yet few people in the developed countries know of the Sustainable Development Goals and what they seek to achieve.

If social change and development is about enlarging human capabilities, are there ways of using these ideas to better understand the successes and failures of state policy?

The world is rapidly changing, but in ways that many of us fail to understand. For many, things are bad. For many, things are getting better. So we need to understand how the world can both be bad and getting better at the same time, and what this means for our understanding of social change and development.

Lying behind an enlargement of human capabilities lies a set of ethical concerns that need to be addressed. One way of addressing these concerns is through realizing human rights.

The world is rapidly changing, but in ways that many of us fail to understand. For many, things are bad. For many, things are getting better. So we need to understand how the world can both be bad and getting better at the same time, and what this means for our understanding of social change and development.

How can we understand social change and development? One way is by seeing it as the capability of people to seek to achieve the live to which they aspire. This is called capabilities, and an enlargement of capabilities has been called central to the enlargement of human freedoms by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen.

The world is rapidly changing, but in ways that many of us fail to understand. For many, things are bad. For many, things are getting better. So we need to understand how the world can both be bad and getting better at the same time, and what this means for our understanding of social change and development.

In the early 2020s we live in a world that is in transition, but to an end point that is not known. How this transition plays out will shape all of our lives, for the rest of the century

The world is rapidly changing, but in ways that many of us fail to understand. For many, things are bad. For many, things are getting better. So we need to understand how the world can both be bad and getting better at the same time, and what this means for our understanding of social change and development.

The world has changed irrevocably over the course of the last 40 years as neoliberalism has come to shape the tenor of our times.

The world is rapidly changing, but in ways that many of us fail to understand. For many, things are bad. For many, things are getting better. So we need to understand how the world can both be bad and getting better at the same time, and what this means for our understanding of social change and development.

It is relatively easy to show that the world is bad. It is relatively easy to show that the world is getting better. We live in a world in motion, which is both bad and getting better at the same time.