ABSTRACT
According to a recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, poor Americans will face grave health problems, go hungry, and lose their homes to floods. Economists have pointed out that inequality in America is a human rights violation, often suggesting that it has nothing to do with differences in merit or effort. Oxfam International may have been the first to sound the alarm on recent dramatic increases in worldwide inequality, but its 2014 conclusions have been confirmed by an increasing number of economists who replicated Oxfam International's estimate, both for the world and for the US. The historical legacy of inequality and discrimination suffered by women in Ethiopia is taken into account; women, in order to remedy this legacy, are entitled to affirmative measures. To promote policies of equitable distribution of wealth and of the economic resources of the country, for the purpose of preventing inequality, social and economic exclusion, and to eradicate poverty in its multiple dimensions.
