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Meanwhile, an increase in the exchange rate is likely to contribute to inequality in China, as its poor farmers face increasing competition from America’s highly subsidized farms.
This would include coordinated monetary and fiscal policies across the G20 countries; renewed efforts to expand world trade; new national agendas addressing inequality and promoting social mobility; and a laser-like focus on science, technology, and innovation as the key to future growth.
Finally, these work patterns often go hand in hand with dramatic income inequality.
They have some of the highest levels of inequality in the world.
The world’s 50 most unequal economies are in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, with South Africa taking the prize for the highest income inequality.
For starters, national politics in key countries is largely moving away from cooperation, with rising inequality and social fragmentation making it difficult for governments, especially in democracies, to make tough decisions.
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve NothingNEW YORK – Although America’s right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country’s major problems – for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity, opioid addiction, poor schools, and deteriorating infrastructure – the solution is always the same: lower taxes and deregulation, to “incentivize” investors and “free up” the economy.
Slow income growth, unemployment, inequality, immigration, and terrorism are supposedly not being tackled decisively enough.
Not surprisingly, income inequality in many of these countries is worse today than it was when they abandoned privatization and other reforms.
The exact form of the stimulus will likely be inefficient and regressive: big tax cuts for the rich will exacerbate the inequality that helped fuel Trump’s success.
The greatest divide between the Roma and majority populations is not one of culture or lifestyle – as is so often portrayed by the media – but poverty and inequality.
As a result, France suffers from growing inequality, high and still-rising unemployment, constant corporate restructurings entailing layoffs, threats to public services and social welfare programs, and a general feeling of insecurity.
Although more attention is being given to gender issues, inequality persists in every culture, country, and continent.
For example, political obstacles to comprehensive economic policymaking in many advanced economies have undermined the implementation of structural reforms and responsive fiscal policies in recent years, holding back business investment, undermining productivity growth, worsening inequality, and threatening future potential growth.
But Brazil, for all of its strengths, has one critical weakness: a high level of inequality.
Meanwhile, policymakers overlooked the economic, political, and social consequences of rising inequality – not just of income and wealth, but also of opportunity – thereby allowing the middle class gradually to be hollowed out, a trend that was exacerbated by both technological and non-technological developments.
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.
I grew up in Mozambique when the country was still under Portuguese rule, and the inequality in our colonial society shaped my view that all people have a right to health care.
Citizens complain about income, inequality, or rising house prices, not about the lack of jobs.
That period was, in many people’s view, tarnished by greed, with rapid GDP growth accompanied by increasing inequality of income and wellbeing.
And if he is, to what extent will his policies be responsible, and will faster growth entail grave long-term costs to the environment and income inequality?
For starters, faster growth is unlikely to reverse the current trend toward inequality, and a few small, targeted presidential interventions into the actions of specific states or companies are hardly going to change that.
If environmental degradation and rising inequality make economic growth such a mixed blessing, is the US government wrong to focus on it so much?
Yet the recent backlash against globalization – triggered not only by economic insecurity and inequality, but also by fears of social and demographic change – has brought a resurgence of old-fashioned ethnic nationalism.
Poverty and inequality increased; unemployment rose; and foreign debt grew – and continues to grow – at an alarming rate.
And, while rising global concern about income inequality has put some wind in Francis’s sails, his agenda has yet to make an impact on Catholic policymakers like Republican US Congressmen Paul Ryan and John Boehner or powerful figures in the Church.
Trade economists study the implications of globalization on inequality within and across countries.
Thus the mixed verdict is this: less poverty, higher median incomes, and more inequality.
Europeans look at the US picture and argue that inequality, not jobs, is the key issue.
Europe’s policy is to abolish extreme inequality and poverty by lavish unemployment compensation that puts a floor under the willingness of people to accept poor jobs.
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