The economic disparity between the two communities is pronounced.

The most vexed issues of independent Malaysia were education and the disparity of economic power among the ethnic communities.

Usually straightforward with clear messages, punk art is often concerned with political issues such as social injustice and economic disparity.

Historical economic or social disparity is alleged to be a form of discrimination caused by past racism and historical reasons, affecting the present generation through deficits in the formal education and kinds of preparation in previous generation, and through primarily unconscious racist attitudes and actions on members of the general population.

The disparity between the two territories in economic development and political experience would cause serious difficulties when it came time to integrate the two parts.

In countries with small Chinese minorities, the economic disparity can be remarkable.

The standard of living includes factors such as income, quality and availability of employment, class disparity, poverty rate, quality and affordability of housing, hours of work required to purchase necessities, gross domestic product, inflation rate, number of vacation days per year, affordable ( or free ) access to quality healthcare, quality and availability of education, life expectancy, incidence of disease, cost of goods and services, infrastructure, national economic growth, economic and political stability, political and religious freedom, environmental quality, climate and safety.

In December 1984, the Taiwan Aboriginal People's Movement was launched when a group of aboriginal political activists, aided by the progressive Presbyterian Church in Taiwan ( PCT ), established the Alliance of Taiwan Aborigines ( ATA, or yuan chuan hui ) to highlight the problems experienced by indigenous communities all over Taiwan, including: prostitution, economic disparity, land rights and official discrimination in the form of naming rights (; ; ).

The economic disparity between the village and urban schools resulted in imposing many social barriers on aborigines, which prevent many from moving beyond vocational training.

Facilitation of economic development through planning measures failed to close the disparity between East and West, not only in terms of the economic opportunity but also housing conditions and transport options.

Martin Luther King originally wanted the Poor People's Campaign to start in Quitman County because of the intense and visible economic disparity there.

Gem is calculated by tracking “ the share of seats in parliament held by women ; of female legislators, senior officials and managers ; and of female profession and technical workers ; and the gender disparity in earned income, reflecting economic independence .” It then ranks countries given this information.

Nearly two-thirds of all UCR students graduate within six years without regard to economic disparity.

Economic inequality ( also known as the gap between rich and poor, income inequality, wealth disparity, or wealth and income differences ) comprises disparities in the distribution of economic assets ( wealth ) and income within or between populations or individuals.

Suhrawardy pursued a reform agenda to reduce the long standing economic disparity between East and West Pakistan, greater representation of Bengalis in the Pakistani civil and armed services and he unsuccessfully attempted to alleviate the food shortage in the country.

Upon his death the Chief Minister of the ACT, Rosemary Follett, described Hollows to her parliamentary colleagues as " an egalitarian and a self-named anarcho-syndicalist who wanted to see an end to the economic disparity which exists between the First and Third Worlds and who believed in no power higher than the best expressions of the human spirit found in personal and social relationships.

Since 1994, IPS has also published an annual report on the disparity between CEO and worker pay that has garnered widespread coverage in the mainstream media and helped put the issue of economic inequality at the center of the political debate.

The parallel lines at the top ( with white space between them ) are said to make an allusion to the tricolor Indian flag and depict an equality sign, which symbolizes the nation's desire to reduce economic disparity.

* Income disparity by gender in a purely economic context

* 2010: Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson, and William McKenzie of The Dallas Morning News " for their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city ’ s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.

The economic disparity, the collapse of One Unit programme, and failure to control and diminished the influence of business monopoly in national politics, further forced Suhrawardy to resigned from his post, with many believe he was forced to resigned under threat of dismissal on October 10, 1957, by the President.

While South Indian states have improved in some socio-economic metrices, economic disparity, illiteracy and poverty continue to affect the region much like the rest of the country.

The technology innovation of the ad server, together with the sale of online ads on an impression basis, fueled a dramatic rise in the proliferation of web advertising and provided the economic foundation for the web industry from the period of 1994 to 2000.

Germany was seen as an anti-colonial power and friend of the Arab world ; cultural and economic exchange and infrastructure projects such as the Baghdad Railway supported that impression.

Among such people of the “ poor ” social classes, the displays of wealth psychologically combat the impression of poverty, often because he or she belongs to a social class or to an economic group whom society perceive as “ poor ”.

Later, Hide also met Roger Douglas, a former Minister of Finance whose radical economic reforms had made a considerable impression on him.

This move, coupled with the impression that the project was beyond Egypt's economic capabilities, caused Eisenhower to withdraw all American financial aid for the Aswan Dam project on 19 July.

At a time when Sino-Soviet relations were close but tense, as the CCP endorsed Soviet methods of economic planning but wanted to make sure that the USSR did not gain increased influence over the PRC, the impression ( however slight ) that Gao's attempts to gain power might have had links to his friendship with the Soviets would have been viewed with alarm.

Miller wanted the map to ( 1 ) be an original conception for the most important room in the new building, ( 2 ) indicate the boundaries of the states and the Federal Reserve Districts and Branches to reflect the regional character of the System, ( 3 ) use symbols representing the chief economic activities of each region, and ( 4 ) give the impression of age.

While Angola's foreign policy shifted to a pro-U. S. stance based on substantial economic ties, under the rule of President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe's ties with the West soured in the late 1990s.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

With the breakup of the Soviet Union, the country, till that point highly dependent on exports to the USSR, had to make a radical shift in economic outlook: away from the East, and towards the West.

Laissez faire economic liberals considered such measures to be an unjust imposition upon liberty, as well as a hindrance to economic development, and, as the working class in the West became increasingly prosperous, they also became more conservative.

" After the U. S. enforced the embargo, Nicaragua was isolated from the West, forcing the Sandinistas to rely more on Eastern bloc military and economic assistance even though Moscow declined to offer the quantity of aid it provided to close communist allies.

Under Gorbachev, relatively young, reform-oriented technocrats, who had begun their careers in the heyday of " de − Stalinization " under Nikita Khrushchev ( 1958 – 1964 ), rapidly consolidated power within the CPSU, providing new momentum for political and economic liberalization, and the impetus for cultivating warmer relations and trade with the West.

Today, Ethiopia has very good relations with the U. S. and the West, especially in responding to regional instability and, increasingly, through economic involvement.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it became clear to coastal residents that the city or state that succeeded in developing a cheap, reliable route to the West would enjoy economic success, and that the port at the seaward end of such a route would see business increase greatly.

During the Cold War, Finland's foreign policy was based on official neutrality between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, while simultaneously stressing Nordic cooperation in the framework of the Nordic Council and cautious economic integration with the West as promoted by the Bretton-Woods Agreement and the free trade treaty with the European Economic Community.

In a letter dated 13 January 1997, the Department of State advised the other agencies of the Executive branch that it considered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to be one area for political, economic, legal and other purposes.

After the takeover in November 1993 by General Sani Abacha as the new Nigerian head of state, Ghana and Nigeria continued to consult on economic, political, and security issues affecting the two countries and West Africa as a whole.

The highway that begins on the West Coast of Demerara is heavily trafficked since it provides a link to Parika on the East Bank of the Essequibo River, which has become an important center of economic activity in the Essequibo region.

* 1920: Gdingen ( now named Gdynia ), along with other parts of former West Prussia, became a part of the new Republic of Poland ; simultaneously, the city of Danzig and surrounding area was declared a free city and put under the League of Nations, though Poland was given economic liberties and requisitioned for matters of foreign representation.

The combination of the state's perceived illegitimacy by East Germans and economic problems resulted in 2. 7 million East Germans violating the DDR ban on leaving the country by going to West Germany in the 1950s.

Millions of ethnic Germans fled from Communist areas into West Germany, which experienced rapid economic expansion, and became the dominant economy in Western Europe.

While East German propaganda was based on the benefits of the GDR's social programs and the alleged constant threat of a West German invasion, many of her citizens looked to the West for political freedoms and economic prosperity.

Main reasons for the collapse include severe economic problems and growing emigration towards the West.

West Germany enjoyed prolonged economic growth beginning in the early 1950s ( Wirtschaftswunder or " Economic Miracle ").

Soon after Hoxha's death, voices for change emerged in the Albanian society and the government began to seek closer ties with the West in order to improve economic conditions.

In some areas, such as parts of British West Africa, colonial control was tenuous and intended for simple economic extraction, strategic power, or as part of a long term development plan.

As West European economic growth accelerated during the Industrial Revolution, sea trade and colonialism which had begun in the second half of the 18th century, Russia began to lag ever farther behind, creating new problems for the empire as a great power.

Hundreds of thousands of East Germans defected to the West via West Berlin, a labour drain that threatened East Germany with economic collapse.