Inequalities
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Unlike most other OECD countries, where
inequalities
have increased over the last 30 years, in France pre-tax income inequality decreased slightly, or at worst remained stable, from 1970 to 2000.
Cameron’s initial reaction to exit polls indicating that the Conservatives would be able to govern without a coalition partner was to call for a return to the “One Nation” policies – emphasizing the reduction of social and economic
inequalities
– that defined his party 50 years ago.
Stark
inequalities
also exist within cities, mainly between those with a hukou (a record in China’s official household-registration system) and migrants without one.
This has given rise to massive inequalities, blatant rent-seeking, and predatory behavior.
That means breaking down barriers and inequalities, building capacity, and disseminating knowledge.
With the country performing well below its considerable potential, “black economic empowerment” efforts that are meant to reduce historical
inequalities
have suffered.
And officials should be rewarded for their contributions not just to GDP growth, but also to reducing social and economic
inequalities
and promoting a more caring form of government.
But emphasizing the reduction of social
inequalities
does not sit easily with America’s profoundly individualistic ethos, and the attempt to “Europeanize” the nature of the social contract between the state and its citizens might yet crash against the constitutive principles of the American system.
Regional
inequalities
are not limited to Italy.
Those, of course, were code words for surplus saving, excessive investment, open-ended resource demand, environmental degradation, and mounting income
inequalities.
Enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 members will mean that for decades Europeans will need to live with greater material
inequalities.
But growth, while necessary, is insufficient by itself, given today’s high unemployment and the extent to which income and wealth
inequalities
have increased.
In a context of weak institutions, persistent inequalities, and high levels of marginalization and exclusion, new growth opportunities for organized crime have emerged.
Instead, single-minded pursuit of GNP has led to great
inequalities
of wealth and power, fueled the growth of a vast underclass, trapped millions of children in poverty, and caused serious environmental degradation.
The 2008 global financial crisis left the US economy mired in a low-level equilibrium, characterized by sluggish job creation, persistently high long-term and youth unemployment, and growing
inequalities
of income, wealth, and opportunity.
Inequalities
remain too high, and continue to grow.
Few were ready to admit that the advanced economies had bet the farm on the wrong growth model, much less that they should look to the emerging economies for insight into structural impediments to growth, including debt overhangs and excessive
inequalities.
Considering China’s huge and growing income inequalities, and its massive disguised rural unemployment, it is easy to imagine a period of political instability that sends investors heading for the exits.
Trump is at the other end of today’s illiberal-capitalist spectrum: no less comfortable than Putin with deep income inequalities, but not as inclined to use the state to favor particular businesspeople (other than himself).
Even two decades ago, it was easy to predict that mainstream politicians’ unwillingness to offer remedies for the insecurities and
inequalities
of our hyper-globalized age would create political space for demagogues with easy solutions.
As Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh put it at the International Conference of Dalits and Minorities, held in New Delhi in December, “Even as absolute poverty may be reduced by growth,
inequalities
can get sharpened.
So India must “take steps that reduce social and economic inequalities, without hurting the process of growth and without reducing the incentives for individual enterprise and creativity.”
So while net job creation will continue and the unemployment rate will maintain its downward trajectory – both highly welcome – the labor market’s evolution risks fueling rather than countering already-significant income and wealth inequalities, as well as poverty.
Foreign ministers of the 55-nation Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) decided last month in Porto to develop a new strategy for economic and environmental co-operation in the Euro-Atlantic area so as to address security threats resulting from the growing
inequalities
between countries of this region.
As we saw in 2016, there can be far-reaching consequences when vast
inequalities
of opportunities and outcomes lead people to believe that they have no future.
Such
inequalities
exist, to varying degrees, in all developed countries.
Understanding and reducing these health
inequalities
remains a major public-policy challenge worldwide.
It is not only a moral issue; health
inequalities
carry significant economic costs.
But the causes of such
inequalities
are complex and contested, and the solutions are elusive.
The prevailing explanation for health
inequalities
is rooted in the social determinants of health – that is, the environments in which people work and live.
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