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It would not eliminate huge inequalities.
The global economy is generating pressures as well: rising joblessness, widening social inequalities, and the emergence of new economic powers.
Like many countries, India’s gender inequalities are deeply entrenched.
While gross inequalities between rich and poor persist, we cannot claim to be making adequate progress toward fulfilling the ambitions set down 60 years ago.
But the EPRDF made matters worse by undermining the constitution that it helped promulgate, and appearing to have no plan for nation building beyond supposedly rectifying historical inequalities between ethnic communities (though it succeeded in stimulating faster economic growth than the country had ever recorded in modern times).
People save partly because of weaknesses in government social-insurance programs; strengthening social security (pensions) and public health and education will simultaneously reduce social inequalities, increase citizens’ sense of well-being, and promote current consumption.
They are home to 70% of the population that lives on less than $2 a day, facing massive unemployment, gross inequalities, lack of infrastructure, regional imbalances, and a litany of other challenges.
Yet post-conflict employment policies almost always neglect so-called “horizontal inequalities.”
In this process, the concentration of foreign direct investment (FDI) along the coasts will also continue to exacerbate regional inequalities.
SDGs to end extreme poverty; decarbonize the energy system; slow population growth; promote sustainable food supplies; protect the oceans, forests, and drylands; and redress the inequalities of our time can galvanize a generation’s worth of problem-solving.
Another key step in “shock-proofing” Asian economies will be to address the problem of jobless growth, unemployment, and rising inequalities.
To be sure, these are relative inequalities, and China has undeniably reduced absolute poverty.
Meanwhile, growing unemployment, widening skill and productivity gaps, and the “informalization” or “casualization” of labor markets have exacerbated income inequalities worldwide, as the number of “working poor” and the incidence of “jobless growth” has spread.
But inequalities at the national level have deepened in most countries in recent years, largely due to economic liberalization at both the national and international levels.
Indeed, in much of the world, such economic reforms have actually undermined growth rates as well as the progressive role of government, while otherwise increasing overall inequalities.
Developing-country governments should be spending at least 5% of GDP on health, eliminating charges on child and maternal health care, and ensuring that financial resources – and health workers – are allocated in a way that reduces inequalities in care.
Any strategy for achieving the 2030 target for child mortality must go beyond the health sector and focus on the wider inequalities – for example, in nutrition, education, and access to clean water and sanitation – that fuel child mortality.
In Europe, inequalities have intensified as a result of rapidly rising unemployment, especially among young people.
Sri Lanka will need balanced affirmative-action programs that address the various dimensions of economic disparity and are attuned to the inequalities within the Tamil population.
Did Deng Xiao Peng foresee the vast inequalities that would result?
International inequalities, while large three decades ago, have worsened ever since.
The weaker a country’s institutions, the more evident the inequalities, and the more concentrated the economic resources, the greater the caudillo’s powers will be.
But, while these policies have reduced inequalities in some social and economic outcomes, including income, housing quality, and health-care access, they have been insufficient to eliminate health inequalities.
So, while a partial failure of the welfare state may help to explain the persistence of health inequalities, one must look elsewhere to understand – and reverse – their rise.
Given this, new behavioral recommendations by health authorities tend to exacerbate health inequalities, at least temporarily.
This is a mistake, given that the consequences of this shift – rising income inequality, weaker social safety nets, and reduced health-care access – will aggravate health inequalities in the long run.
Reducing inequalities in health outcomes requires more intensive health care for patients in lower socioeconomic brackets, tailored to their specific needs and challenges.
What is true in the Netherlands and Europe is true all over the world: reducing the inequalities that exist between men and women is not only a matter of justice; it also makes economic sense.
While globalization offers new opportunities, it also causes new global problems and deepens the inequalities embedded in the world order.
Climate change and shifting diets have created new risk categories, while wealth inequalities and political exclusion have produced deeper pockets of vulnerability.
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