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This makes it all the more difficult – and even more imperative – to devise and implement effective strategies to combat the factors driving it: growing inequalities and unchecked discrimination, environmental degradation, and prolonged conflict and instability.
The current global inequalities in living standards are close to those that existed within our own societies over a century ago.
Socialism, too, was a brave and necessary corrective to the social inequalities that emerged from laissez-faire capitalism.
Beneath China’s powerful economic dynamo lie deep tensions, inequalities, and cleavages that could well derail a smooth progression to global hegemony.
This approach focuses on reducing inequalities of opportunity and broadening the base of participants in the growth process, thereby ensuring that more people benefit from it.
It may well be true that Brexit will exacerbate these inequalities.
Even within countries, massive inequalities remain.
There is also a deeper point in this contrast: our societies tolerate inequalities because they are viewed to be socially useful; it is the price we pay for having incentives that motivate people to act in ways that promote societal well-being.
Obama was supported by a coalition of minorities: African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Muslim-Americans, gay and lesbian Americans, and an under-represented majority – women – all of whom perceive continuing inequalities and injustices that need to be remedied.
Income and wealth inequalities worsened.
But if we want freedom, then social and economic inequalities are a legitimate, and necessary, price to pay.
Italy’s persistent regional inequalities were also on vivid display: whereas the prosperous north favored the anti-immigrant League party, the more populist Five Star Movement received most of its support in the poorer south.
The fact is that the West is beset by deep social inequalities, reinforced in recent decades by poorly managed globalization.
Now, however, the economic tumult shaking Europe, the erosion of the middle class in the West, and the growing social inequalities worldwide are undermining capitalism’s claim to universal triumph.
Globalized markets are viewed as bringingmore inequalities, austerity, and insecurity than the promised benefits of economic growth.
Privatizing a public good, further stratifying education, and increasing inequalities is no answer; fully funding public schools is.
With nearly half the population below the poverty line, the country’s pervasive inequalities underlie its tumultuous political history, soaring crime levels, and massive outward migration.
This raises long-term well being all around, but exacerbates short-term inequalities and frictions.
But taxing basic foods and household items can have a disproportionate impact on lower-income families, whose limited disposable incomes are already stretched thin, and thus can exacerbate existing inequalities.
Germany also featured in PISA 2000, recording below-average performance and large social inequalities in education – an outcome that stunned Germans and initiated a months-long public debate.
And, at least initially, economic growth tends to increase inequalities within a country, as some communities or individuals benefit from rising income and others don’t.
Ultimately, the enhanced economic activity that development generates is the only way to reduce inequalities, particularly in a context of rapid demographic growth: it is easier to work on a fairer distribution of a growing pie than of a shrinking one.
Had more attention been given to the country’s most glaring inequalities in access to water, shelter, or jobs, this population might not have chosen violence as an instrument of change.
As the global recession ebbs, the most urgent imperative is recovery for all – a recovery that is inclusive, expands employment opportunities, reduces inequalities, and sustains development processes.
And without universal access to public investments in human capital, societies will succumb to extreme inequalities of income and wealth.
For the average developing country the results were stagnation, widened economic inequalities, climbing unemployment, and increased numbers of poor people.
The unrealistic pursuit of endless quantitative growth places intolerable strains on our planet and widens inequalities.
Prior to 2008, there were widespread inequalities: lavish lifestyles for some, while half of the world’s children were living on less than $2 per day, suffering from malnutrition and limited access to health, education, drinking water, and adequate housing.
The economic justification for large income inequalities – the need to stimulate people to be more productive – collapses when growth ceases to be so important.
In Latin America, however, rigid class divisions and deep income inequalities created fertile ground for populism.
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