Geopolitics Magazine September - October 2014 | Page 30

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A quite interesting case is the one of China in which, according to Reuters, the dynamics of growth in
gaping the inequality (Bown
2008) has no further effect
under the current policies.
Reuters reports that GINI index
remains on very high rate at
0.474 in 2012 and 0.477 in
2011(A.WANG 2013)
While the general incomes and
/or welfare state had been
significant developed in most
European and across the pond,
countries, last 4 decades
resulting to a significant improvement of life expectancy trend. This is still in place in most places
within EU(Eurostat 2014)where it seems that in other countries, especially after debt reconstruction
and the employment of new liberal policies, the infant mortality has raised rapidly. After the initial
shock it seems now the infant mortality rates are getting lower while some researchers suggests that
there is a strong correlation of the social class in which the infant belong and the chances for survival
(Bronfman 1992). Even within European Union, Memorandum of Understanding imposes an enormous
cost for accessing the public health care system for giving birth is expecting to play a negative role on
infant mortality (I.e. the case of Greece in where from free child birth health services , today cost is
estimated in a range of 400€ to 1300 € with the minimum salary being at 490€ ) (Hadjimatheou
2012)
An international problem that widen
inequality but also indicates inequality
(Docquier 2006)is the immigration wave
out of poorer countries, targeting to the
most educated part of population known as
brain drain. In the post-colonial period, excolonial powers were still targeting this part
of population of their ex-colonies providing
incentives for people with high educational
background to migrate to ex-metropolis
(Pierson and Cotgreave 2000, Pang,
Lansang et al. 2002). Nowadays
immigration of skilled workforces is once
again very welcome is some parts of the world, especially in Canada, Germany, England, partially in
USA while many Europeans are leaving Hesperia to destinations of the Arab world or to Asian centers
of Finance like Singapore(Fargues , Borjas 1990, Martin 1994, Chiswick 2005, McDonald and Temple
2010).
Thus the data that suggest a strong contradiction of
European periphery population is absolutely justified
especially if we take into account the reduction of the birth
rate even beyond the 2.1 children per woman which is the
rate for the preservation of the population. Portugal lost
400.00 people in just 1 year, Hellas (Greece) almost
1.000.000 in 10 years while Spain is to lose 10% of its
population (Authority 2011, GAVINO 2012, T.Pitikaris 2013).
The burden of debt and the new liberal ideology that became
dominant, after the election of President Reagan in USA and
Baroness Thatcher in UK, but