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The region made significant gains in social inclusion during the first decade of this century, through a combination of economic dynamism and sustained political commitment to fighting poverty and inequality as interdependent problems.
However, evidence from the World Bank’s LAC Equity Lab confirms that growth explains only part of Latin America’s social gains; the rest was due to redistribution through social spending.
Efforts to reduce poverty and inequality are at risk of stalling – or even of losing hard-won gains.
They fear that the impressive gains of the last decade will be lost.
But there is still considerable slack in the labor market, and, as long as it persists, the gains from faster growth will continue to be concentrated at the top of the income distribution, as they have been throughout the recovery.
By the same logic, stronger growth in 2014 and tightening labor markets should lead to healthier wage gains for the 70% of the workforce whose real wages have not yet returned to their pre-recession level.
Fifth, the distribution of gains from economic growth cannot be ignored.
Unsurprisingly, the rich countries’ negotiators throw around big numbers when describing the gains from even an imperfect agreement.
Developing countries soon discovered that their gains were far less than advertised, and the poorest countries found, to their dismay, that they were actually worse off.
Despite the impressive gains many countries have made, hundreds of millions of people are still being left behind.
A sizeable number of people are still missing out on these gains.
And, even when they are, national averages can paint a distorted picture: an increase in average income, for example, might conceal the deepening poverty of some, as it is offset by large gains for a wealthy few.
After decades of making steady development gains, what can we do differently to help the planet’s most disadvantaged people?
Developing countries have begun sharing in these gains: responsible for next-to-none of the world’s fertilizer consumption in 1960, by 2000 they used more than industrialized countries.
If a peace agreement is concluded before that choice is made, a 2018 World Cup jointly staged in Israel and Palestine would be a fantastic opportunity to consolidate the gains for both sides.
But any gains from lower taxes are more than offset by the losses to the private sector, which, facing higher financing costs, will invest less, in turn lowering economic growth – and thus reducing government revenues.
In short, neoliberalism’s intellectual capture of economic policymaking across a wide range of countries, is resulting in the exclusion of most wage earners from the gains of economic growth.
If workers are going to partake in the gains of growth once again, governments will need to start adopting more progressive policy alternatives.
In other words, the Islamists’ gains are threatened, above all, by the manner in which their leaders secure them.
If Latin American governments implement it successfully, they truly will deserve to claim credit for the economic gains that result.
In an area where commercial gains are limited, but the potential for vastly improving the health and economies of entire countries is enormous, scientists must continue to break down silos and collaborate for the global good.
Second, we must actively confront the growing anti-vaccine lobby, which threatens to undo the gains made in recent years.
Health officials everywhere can learn from and replicate the gains made in these two countries.
Aside from costing billions of taxpayer dollars, Paulson’s plan violates the fundamental capitalist principle that whoever reaps the gains also bears the losses.
Likewise, when Americans speak of the IITs, India’s technology institutes, with the same reverence they accord to MIT, and the “Indianness” of engineers and software developers is taken as synonymous with mathematical and scientific excellence, India gains in respect.
But these gains were rolled back in late 2012 and early 2013, with the intervention of Hezbollah and other foreign-backed non-state actors.
This could cause some to assert that the private firms are realizing unjust gains.
Fear of another Islamist takeover is a second main argument against toppling Assad, but the longer he stays in power, the greater the gains made by Islamists on the ground.
Too adventuresome a policy would jeopardize China’s gains at home and abroad.
This, in turn, would bring greater gains from trade, stronger competition, larger cross-border capital flows, lower borrowing costs, and more opportunities for sharing risk, all of which were expected ultimately to boost investment and productivity.
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