Well, things have started off with a bang. Just around the time classes were wrapping up last term, China dropped its “zero-covid” policy and leaped into a massive experiment of “let’s see how fast everyone can get covid.” Man, that was fast. After a few weeks, though, where I lived seems to have calmed down […]

November turned into a busy month between classes and my own projects. Outside of these, much of what I wrestled with involved pivoting away from what I had initially thought I was focusing on (as mentioned in my Week 6-7 post) and going back to the drawing board. My Migration and Forced Displacement Intensive was […]

As I have mentioned, I want to combine my undergraduate major with inequality, so I have been looking for the relationship between data and inequality. As I was looking for information on it, I realised that older people left behind by the digital wave were also well worthy of our attention. Today’s societies in China […]

As I mentioned in week four, my previous direction was to study income inequality between urban and rural areas in China. However, as I was reading the literature, I noticed the phenomenon of financial exclusion. Financial exclusion is a phenomenon in which some disadvantaged groups in economic activity, such as micro and small enterprises and […]

As I said last week, my first step was to analyze the current literature in each of my possible chosen topics so that I can see what information I have to work with and where there is a gap in the literature.  I have also developed what I believe to be two of my questions […]

Because my undergraduate degree is in Information Management and Information Systems, I am interested in the inequality of information. One of my ideas is that what you see may only be what you want to see, or what others want you to see. Since Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, we have been exploring what the […]

Original Thoughts As I said in my week one post, I am interested in comparing America’s approach to their treatment of teachers with another country or region’s treatment of teachers, potentially analyzing current policies in each of the countries or even in attitudes towards their own professions.  I am fairly confident that I want to […]

This week we had our first intensives, and the results were… intense. There was a certain amount of satisfaction in being able to read vast amounts of work and somehow magically remember enough of those readings to refer back to them in discussions. Probably even more so for the students in North America who were […]

For the topic of my final assessment essay, I have an initial idea about income inequality.   Since the 1980s, the Gini coefficient has climbed rapidly and income inequality has worsened in many countries. So what are the causes of income inequality? What is the relationship between income inequality and economic growth? How to adjust […]