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But the system of taxing global profits is broken – and it is exacerbating inequality both within and across countries.
If the world is to make progress toward its goals of eradicating poverty and stemming rising inequality, the system must be reformed.
If world leaders are serious about reducing inequality and eradicating poverty, they must commit to creating a just and transparent tax system.
As American society ages and domestic inequality worsens, and assuming that interest rates on the national debt eventually rise, taxes will need to go up, urgently on the wealthy but some day on the middle class.
Without them, the continent is more likely to experience rising unemployment, widening inequality, social disorder, and, ultimately, conflict and chaos.
Whether or not that is justified, such companies’ contribution to rising income inequality – and thus to regulatory capture, media bias, and disproportionate influence in elections – cannot be ignored.
Income inequality was rising dramatically, environmental damage was worsening rapidly, and inflation was leading to weak real-income growth for poor households.
With food prices rising sharply, the poor are being hit the hardest, fueling greater poverty, inequality, and resentment.
Its leadership will change next year – at a time when income inequality is on the march and the Party lacks any consensus on how to stop it.
Given that less than 9% of China’s ruling communist party members are actually “workers” nowadays, the regime’s leaders must be even more uncomfortable with growing inequality.
But, in the absence of serious political reform, income inequality will widen as crony capitalism sinks its roots more deeply.
With fears of increased inequality already growing, governments will need to rethink policies for providing income and job-transition support to displaced workers.
We estimate that, unless workers’ skill sets are upgraded, today’s mismatch could double in severity within ten years, resulting in major productivity losses and higher levels of inequality.
But there need not be a trade-off between inequality and growth.
In a bleak economic climate, the argument goes, the only winners have been the wealthy, resulting in skyrocketing inequality.
The conventional wisdom on wealth and inequality is similarly mistaken.
Statistics like these utterly disprove the idea that global inequality is growing.
It does, however, increase inequality.
Specifically, in the years before the crisis, financial deregulation and tax cuts for the rich had been driving government deficits and debt ever higher, while further increasing inequality.
Violence is nurtured and sustained by an economic model that encourages illegality and inequality.
Will the current economic reforms reduce inequality, or will the prosperity of some continue to be built on the misery of others?
Although it is impossible to anticipate how Mexico’s many contemporary crises will end, we do know that in the coming years Mexico will continue to be characterized by a combination of solid macroeconomic numbers, chronic inequality, and structural violence.
It is the worst form of capitalism, not only because of the extreme inequality in income and wealth that such economies tolerate, but also because the elites do not promote growth as the central goal of economic policy.
The challenges fall into ten categories – a familiar list of key issues in this part of the world: democracy, education, employment, the environment, fiscal problems, health, infrastructure, poverty and inequality, public administration, and crime.
If South Africa is truly to turn a corner, inequality must be addressed; the majority of the country’s citizens must believe that they can achieve a brighter future.
In South Africa, poverty, inequality, and ethnicity overlap, to the disadvantage of a majority of the country’s 57 million people.
But the headline figure masks a level of inequality that is particularly acute.
Inequality has had a corrosive effect on South Africa’s public and private institutions, negatively affecting how wealth is generated.
To be sure, states have wrestled with inequality for as long as wealth has been generated.
In 1973, the development economist Albert Hirschman likened Latin America’s struggles with inequality to drivers stuck in a traffic jam.
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