In a wry but seriously intended compliment, for example, he writes, "The prime culprit in causing social inequality seems to be merit."

International development can also cause inequality between richer and poorer factions of one nation's society.

Egalitarians point out the various adverse effects of the trickle up effect (when money flows from the poor to the rich) when it causes economic inequality.

For example- the Bank may feel that spectators or the big capitalists are getting a disproportionately large share in the total credit, causing various disturbances and inequality in the economy, while the small-scale industries, consumer goods industries and agriculture are starved of credit.

Experiencing social injustices everyday, anthropologists have created theoretical perspectives in Latin America that hold the idea that the anthropologist must fight the institution in place that is causing inequality, and protect the population that the anthropologist is studying (see Politis 2003).

As for the wealth gap, well, the bottom line is that "the prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit."

Pay is increasing more quickly for upper-income workers, causing inequality to rise in ways it has not since the early 1990's, economists say.

Experience has shown that regional measures cause confusion, legal inequality and administrative difficulties. Moreover, our international statistics tell us that, while international trade by sea is increasing, cases of pollution are decreasing.

UD has since become somewhat of a homegrown theory in Geography as geographers have worked to explain what causes inequality within different scales of space, locally, nationally and internationally.

Rather than restructuring the foundations that cause inequality and insecurity, those that aim to humanize the world advocate compensatory transfers of wealth by governments to attenuate the inequalities and insecurities of the market economy.