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It appears that it is now acceptable to talk about inequality in America as the central issue facing the country.
Countries that fail to build inclusive education systems face the prospect of sluggish growth, rising inequality, and lost opportunities in world trade.
Third, world leaders must get serious about inequality.
Although the Civic Platform, which governed until 2015, grew out of the Solidarity movement of the 1980s, it betrayed its working-class base by pursuing radical neoliberal economic policies that increased economic inequality.
This has resulted in stagnating median incomes and rising income inequality, both of which constrain the private-consumption component of aggregate demand.
Eliminating subsidies and trade barriers would mean that resources could be used more efficiently, so there would be more scope to reduce inequality and poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, malnutrition, and disease.
China faces huge internal challenges, including high and rising income inequality, massive air and water pollution, the need to move to a low-carbon economy, and the same risks of financial-market instabilities that bedevil the US and Europe.
Germany currently has the highest inequality in private wealth in the eurozone, and it has experienced a sharp increase in wage inequality over the last two decades.
In fact, many Germans anticipate a further increase in inequality.
Not only is the minimum wage widely circumvented; some politicians have capitalized on fears of the current influx of refugees to win votes, claiming that openness to foreigners will only make inequality worse.
Inequality, Interests and Competition , edited by the prominent economists Santiago Levy and Michael Walton, argues, vested interests are capable of blocking changes that would make the economy more productive and efficient.
Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game.
Equally serious, it contributes to shocking levels of income inequality, with a few households not only enjoying massive wealth, but also wielding considerable political influence.
And reducing gender inequalities also reduces income inequality, allowing for more sustainable growth.
The G20 and the Inequality CrisisLONDON – Almost a decade ago, facing a near-collapse of the financial system and the risk of a depression, the world needed a new form of leadership to navigate and restore confidence in the global economy.
Today, the G20, now meeting in Hamburg for its annual summit, must confront the challenge of inequality.
It is up to the G20 to deal with the global inequality crisis with the same urgency it showed during the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
The G20, which Germany now leads, could take many steps to address the crisis of inequality, but three are most important.
The SDGs set a bold but achievable agenda for addressing poverty, reducing inequality, improving education and health, and protecting the planet.
Many business leaders do understand that the future of the world economy, and their own companies, depends on reducing poverty, and that this is becomes harder to achieve as inequality widens.
This is the real game changer when it comes to addressing inequality.
Now is the time for the G20 to step up again, and to act with genuine resolve, to address the global inequality crisis.
It can call on Europe to provide greater predictability of financial flows and alignment on climate and development objectives, especially to reduce inequality and poverty, boost clean energy, and build sustainable urban transport and other infrastructure.
Rwanda has reduced both economic and health-care inequality, and demonstrates how “health equity” helps to build strong societies.
And income inequality in Japan ranks among the lowest in Asia.
Despite extraordinary growth since the start of its transition to a market economy in 1979, China is facing serious challenges simultaneously: rising inequality, large and growing levels of environmental degradation, stubborn external imbalances, and an aging society.
Fortunately, China’s 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) recognizes the need to deepen market-oriented reform, change the country’s development model, and focus on the quality of growth, structural reforms, and social inclusion to overcome the rural-urban divide and stem the rise in income inequality.
China 2030 also calls for expanding opportunities, promoting social security, and reducing the country’s relatively high social and economic inequality by addressing the rural-urban disparities in access to jobs, finance, and high-quality public services.
In the process, inequality has risen further.
And potential national outcomes would be less uncertain if excessive inequality were not treated as an afterthought.
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