Distribution
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We know what underpins peaceful societies: an equitable
distribution
of income, respect for minority rights, high education standards, low levels of corruption, and an attractive business environment.
But the fair
distribution
of health-care services across native and migrant populations is often a thorny policy issue.
Prior to the neoliberal Reagan-Thatcher “revolution” of the 1980s, the economic consensus was that inequality and poverty were inherent to capitalism, and that a strong, well-financed government was needed to balance a market economy’s inevitable adverse effects on the
distribution
of income and wealth.
The Nobel laureate economist Robert Lucas spoke for many when he dismissed the importance of inequality: “Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of [income] distribution.”
These two traits put a great deal of bargaining power in the hands of those who control production and distribution, making them ideal for a market economy based on private property.
The creation of information-age goods is difficult to incentivize; their
distribution
is hard to monetize; and we lack the tools to track them easily in national accounts.
Meanwhile, as income and education levels rose, citizens became less tolerant of such abuses, increasingly demanding transparent and lawful delivery of basic public goods, from infrastructure to environmental protection, as well as a fair
distribution
of income and opportunities.
Proponents of this view often argue that migrants drive down wages, particularly at the lower end of the income distribution, undermining natives’ living standards.
We need to go beyond donations and reduced-pricing schemes to build sustainable health-care systems with strong
distribution
channels and education programs for the public and for health-care workers.
Much will depend on whether the underlying technology is stable and secure, trust is established, transparency is convincing, consumer protection is effective, new content is coupled well with strong
distribution
channels, and broad-based validation and institutional verification boost credibility.
Once again, it relies on overcollateralization, an assumption on the joint
distribution
of possible outcomes, and the inevitable seal of approval of the three major credit rating agencies.
In the US, the statistics are striking at both ends of the income
distribution.
First, there is the democratization of information creation and
distribution.
The fourth element that must inform the fight against disinformation is anonymity in information creation and
distribution.
International relations tend to become destabilized by rapid changes in the
distribution
of power.
China’s income
distribution
has become highly skewed: at 0.438, the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, puts the country closer to the United States than to northern Europe’s egalitarian societies (with the exception of the United Kingdom).
Depending on the outcome, results could be available within three months, allowing production and
distribution
to go ahead with greater confidence.
Real income from wages and capital for households in the same part of the income
distribution
was lower in 2014 than in 2005 for about two-thirds of households in 25 advanced economies – more than 500 million people.
And labor-market shifts – driven by technological change, the globalization of low- and medium-skill jobs, and the growing prevalence of part-time, temporary employment – have caused the wage share of national income to decline and the
distribution
of that income among households to become increasingly uneven.
But stagnating or falling incomes for the many add a different dimension to the debate – and demand different types of solutions that emphasize wage growth for the majority of the income
distribution.
In short, all that growth benefited only those at the top of the income distribution, the same group that had done so well over the previous thirty years and that benefited most from Bush's tax cut.
First, it will come as no surprise that, in terms of the
distribution
of income, wealth, and the costs and benefits of forced structural change, growth patterns in most of the developed world have been problematic for the past 20 years.
A misguided focus on GDP has neglected the costs of natural-resource depletion, pollution and other externalities, and the asymmetrical
distribution
of growth in predetermined economic sectors, all of which have long been associated with emerging economies like Egypt.
Lowering health-care costs thus requires greater competition in the pharmaceutical industry – and that means allowing the manufacture and
distribution
of generic drugs.
(The future
distribution
of tasks between the ECB, European Systemic Risk Board, ERA and common DGS is depicted in Figure 1.)Figure 1Recent events in Cyprus have put DGSs back on the EU’s agenda.
There probably are real choices to be made between income levels and distribution, on the one hand, and the range of employment opportunities on the other.
It is not a good idea to assume that markets will solve these distributional problems by themselves; the evolution of structure and the income
distribution
are largely the result of market incentives.
All countries, advanced and emerging, have to address issues of inclusiveness, distribution, and equity as part of the core of their growth and development strategies.
Indeed, not only are Italians, on average, much richer than Germans;Italy’s overall wealth
distribution
is much more balanced.
The new development and
distribution
models promoted by the Open Education movement represent a natural and inevitable evolution of the educational publishing industry.
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