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Education, not the economic system, is what is seen by an increasing number of Americans as the prime cause of inequality in their country.
In many corners of the world, 2018 is shaping up to be yet another disappointing year, as inequality and poverty continue to fuel anger and populism.
There are already many important initiatives dedicated to various dimensions of the inclusiveness challenge, which include not just income and wealth inequality, but also automation, artificial intelligence, and the future of work.
These trends are exacerbating income inequality.
China’s critical needs today include reducing inequality, stemming environmental degradation, creating livable cities, and investments in public health, education, infrastructure, and technology.
Add to this the rise in income and wealth inequality in most countries, and it is no wonder that the perception of a winner-take-all economy that benefits only elites and distorts the political system has become widespread.
When inequality reaches such proportions, it erodes the very basis of the social contract.
Fourth, the new inequality has a politically salient spatial dimension.
Massive spatial inequality creates large communities of people with no future, where the prevailing aspiration can only be to turn back the clock.
Although migrant wages have now caught up, inequality in public services (access to which requires an urban hukou) ensures that this divide persists, risking migrant children’s lifetime prospects and welfare, and deterring future migration.
Second, reform of the hukou system could increase labor productivity, reduce income inequality, and accelerate urbanization.
Central banks do not completely deny the economic costs that these policies imply: exuberance in financial markets, financing gaps in funded pension systems, and deeper wealth inequality, to name just a few.
Economic inequality is clearly a public concern.
Second, there is a widespread belief that advanced economies’ urban elites – in government, the media, and business – are either uninterested or unable to address their societies’ most serious problems: economic inequality, banking crises, aging populations and overburdened social-security systems, terrorism, porous borders, rapidly changing community identities, and much else.
In the face of today’s political disruptions, responsive leadership requires that we address all forms of inequality.
China, beginning with Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, is the obvious choice – that is, if soaring income inequality is not as important as maintaining Communist Party control and ensuring that Cuba’s leaders never have to admit that their official ideology has expired.
CAMBRIDGE – Why were democratic political systems not responsive early enough to the grievances that autocratic populists have successfully exploited – inequality and economic anxiety, decline of perceived social status, the chasm between elites and ordinary citizens?
In principle, greater inequality produces a demand for more redistribution.
This seems to be true even when they are aware of – and concerned by – the sharp rise in inequality.
What explains this apparent paradox is these voters’ very low levels of trust in government’s ability to address inequality.
Taxi drivers and hotel owners may feel threatened, but the sharing economy has the potential to increase and redistribute earnings in cities that are already struggling with poverty and inequality.
Perhaps eliminating the occasions on which this question is asked for no good reason would not only make life easier for those who can’t be squeezed into strict categories, but would also help to reduce inequality for women.
Western democracies are facing serious internal threats – most notably, populist forces espousing dangerous policies like trade protectionism – that have risen largely in response to these systems’ failure to manage problems such as income inequality, political polarization, rising debt, and failing infrastructure.
This is vital to enable an effective response to the structural problems – such as corruption, environmental pollution, and inequality – that more than two generations of rapid growth and development have brought.
Better gender statistics could provide a more detailed understanding of women’s access to justice, education, and finance; improved measures of poverty and inequality could reveal how the benefits of economic growth are distributed; and natural capital accounting could uncover the value of resource endowments, thereby helping to ensure that they are used in a rational and sustainable manner.
The Real Problem with Free TradeNEW DELHI – For most critics of globalization, trade is the villain, responsible for deepening inequality and rising economic insecurity among workers.
Free trade is hardly the only – or even primary – source of inequality and insecurity worldwide.
Even if free trade is ultimately broadly beneficial, the fact remains that as trade has become freer, inequality has worsened.
Inequality is surging, especially in the advanced economies.
They may even pay lip service to the risks posed by climate change and inequality.
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