Inequalities
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They also spring from different factors, such as frustration with rising food prices and widespread corruption, coupled with demands for greater democratization, reduction of economic and social inequalities, and job creation.
South Asia’s worst problems – poverty, conflict, hunger, and gender
inequalities
– are largely concentrated in its lagging regions, where there are limits to growth, because geography, institutions, and globalization will continue to favor the concentration of economic activity in the leading regions.
Once the failure of free trade, deregulation, and monetarism came to be seen as leading to a “new normal” of permanent austerity and diminished expectations, rather than just to a temporary banking crisis, the inequalities, job losses, and cultural dislocations of the pre-crisis period could no longer be legitimized – just as the extortionate taxes of the 1950s and 1960s lost their legitimacy in the stagflation of the 1970s.
In the inter-war period, capitalism seemed doomed by intolerable inequalities, deflation, and mass unemployment.
Many lent intellectual support to the excesses that precipitated it, and to the policy mistakes – particularly insistence on fiscal austerity and disregard for widening
inequalities
– that followed it.
And, notwithstanding serious
inequalities
between Tunisia’s littoral and inland areas, this small country of 10 million people is, according to the World Bank, an upper-middle-income economy.
But significant challenges and massive
inequalities
remain.
Cheap Haitian labor has become a substitute for less-skilled Dominican labor in a way that increases income inequalities, and puts a special burden on the country’s public finances and services, owing to lower tax revenues.
Corporatism elsewhere begat vast inequalities, corruption, and dictatorships that eventually proved unsustainable.
But globalization has its downside: financial markets are unstable; free competition creates and reinforces
inequalities
nationally and internationally; collective interests, from preservation of peace to human rights and environmental protection, receive short shrift.
Worse, appalling income inequalities, a squeezed middle class, and evidence of widespread ethical lapses and impunity are fueling a dangerous disenchantment with democracy and a growing loss of trust in a system that has betrayed the American dream of constant progress and improvement.
No mention was made, then or now, of the need for peace initiatives; of the state of mind of the now-invisible (to Israeli eyes) Palestinians, now relegated to their side of the security wall; or of the growing
inequalities
that separate Israel’s Arab citizens from their Jewish counterparts.
The SDGs aim to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, reduce
inequalities
within and between countries, and ensure a sustainable future for our planet.
Several internal factors – excess resource consumption, environmental degradation, and mounting income
inequalities
– are calling the old model into question, while a broad constellation of US-centric external forces also attests to the urgent need for realignment.
Indeed, a broad range of empirical studies has demonstrated that clinical intervention, however important, cannot remedy health
inequalities.
Perhaps most convincingly, the Whitehall Studies of the British Civil Service in the United Kingdom revealed that even when health-care services were provided as a matter of right, and the cost of care was no longer a barrier to treatment,
inequalities
persisted; a substantial proportion of the population continued to fare poorly on health indicators.
An alternative narrative asserts that technological advances, more than globalization, have exacerbated economic inequalities, setting the stage for political disruptions in developed countries.
Of course,
inequalities
between countries are one thing, and
inequalities
within countries are quite another.
Today, the international community should look for a World Bank president who is attuned to ordinary people’s growing refusal to tolerate glaring global inequalities, and who understands that development is more than GDP growth.
Economic contraction, or even stagnation, is not a solution for the developed countries, either, for a similar reason: it would imply that we either accept existing
inequalities
or impose a regime aiming at an equal redistribution of resources.
The remedy I have in mind, of course, is faster economic growth – the one thing that can raise living standards, reduce excessive inequalities, improve job prospects, alleviate trade tensions, and even moderate geopolitical pressures.
With a dysfunctional Congress again letting down the American people, the country is now on the receiving end of a budgetary sequester – another self-manufactured headwind to economic growth, job creation, and progress on reducing income and wealth
inequalities.
Deng mistakenly believed that the state, which retained its central role in the economy, would be able to use new market-generated resources to correct the short-run
inequalities
created by his reforms.
Furthermore, market forces could reduce inequality in the longer term only if China’s authorities tolerated the short-term
inequalities
created by fluctuations in prices for housing, stocks, labor, natural resources, and currency.
The problem is that the Chinese bureaucracy prefers stability, and it has strong incentives to strengthen its own position relative to the market, thereby exacerbating power
inequalities
and dampening innovation and growth.
China’s leadership has been increasingly vocal in raising concerns about growing
inequalities
that might otherwise hinder the development of what they call a more “harmonious society.”
With a better understanding of people’s relationships to each other – from the impact that one’s lifestyle could have on the health of future generations to the corrosive effects of existing
inequalities
and the concomitant risk of a new genetic divide – a healthier, more equal society could be created.
All Central Asian countries suffer from pervasive corruption, acute income inequalities, political succession problems, and transnational criminal groups that cooperate more effectively than the region’s frequently feuding governments do.
China’s leaders must navigate complex and conflicting pressures, as they seek to address domestic economic inequalities, manage relations with an insecure and isolationist US, cooperate effectively with the rest of the world, and pursue effective climate action.
Before then, profound
inequalities
between China’s poor countryside and its dynamic industrial centers will generate tensions, which may be increased by the gender imbalance – young men greatly outnumber young women.
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