This will be based upon a case study on the continuing social and economic exclusion of the Roma from European society. Discrimination is perhaps one of the most pervasive and serious factors in reducing economic growth and subjecting a significant proportion of societies to poverty and exclusion.
Discrimination has both a positive and a negative connotation.
In a positive sense it reflects a sensitivity to subtle differences between people, events or things. In the negative sense it signifies a bias in assessment, judgement, effective actions, to distinguish unfavorably. Discrimination can be overt and declared by those who exercise it. Extreme examples might be the old South African Apartheid or Germany's Nazi regime which not only wished to apply discrimination, they went to the extent to murdering those discriminated against. The basis of favoring an individual or a company unfairly is discrimination.