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What was NOT surprising was that all the viewer's ratings for this film was distributed extremely skewed, at both poles.
My vision of Jake Gyllenhall has been completely skewed because of this movie.
It's the skewed logic of a criminal mind that since they stole something then it is now theirs and they are justified in using any means to recover their property.
It is unfortunate that other viewers have a skewed version of the conception of Buddhism and take this film to be negative.
This will happen at a time when the country’s skewed demographics causes the workforce to shrink and the flow of migration from rural areas to cities to slow (the rural population now disproportionately comprises the elderly).
Yet, as another Oslo summit background paper shows, education finance is skewed toward the wealthy in most countries.
Women’s participation, moreover, is skewed toward positions in less influential areas like shared services, in which opportunities for promotion to top positions are limited.
Moreover, other forms of borrowing – such as trade finance, which is skewed toward shorter maturities – are not included in these figures.
But India’s national politics has long been skewed toward the Hindi-speaking northern heartland, and Uttar Pradesh has far more voters than the other four states combined.
But, owing to China’s skewed economic structure, its exchange-rate regime presents much more challenging problems than those encountered by Japan and other East Asian economies.
The political system is deeply skewed against challenges to the two incumbent parties.
A third, related, reason is the massively skewed distribution of national income gains that prevails in many countries.
The uneven development of infrastructure, as a result of priorities skewed to benefit colonialists, can lead to resources being distributed unevenly, which can lead to increasing social fissures.
Our global health concerns are similarly skewed.
And in countries like the United States, the distribution of income and wealth is so skewed that lower-income households cannot afford to invest in measures to adapt to rapidly changing employment conditions.
The United States, the country that consumes the most, is moving in the opposite direction: women are struggling to hold onto their reproductive rights, wealth distribution is becoming increasingly skewed, and corporations are becoming even more powerful.
In a democracy like India’s, the politically well-connected benefit from skewed growth, thus increasing the resentment of those left behind.
Currently, the US gives only 0.17% of its gross net income as official development assistance – the second-smallest share among OECD countries – and aid is highly skewed toward countries that support America’s foreign policy agenda.
Both policies reflect the skewed distribution of China’s population, with more than 90% squeezed into the eastern half of the country, creating extreme congestion and the potential for political instability.
Income distribution has skewed in favor of the rich for too long, and the government has failed to provide decent public goods.
What many fail to recognize is that these are merely the symptoms of a single underlying problem: China’s skewed growth model.
Another consequence of China’s skewed growth model has been a decline in household income as a share of GDP, from 70% in 1990 to 60% in 2009, whereas in the US, for example, the ratio has remained stable, at around 80% of GDP.
But others are startling, which partly reflects skewed public perceptions of poverty’s prevalence and severity, as well as the challenge of acquiring accurate data.
To get the economy going, some people will, in fact, have to bear some pain, but the increasingly skewed income distribution gives clear guidance to whom this should be: Approximately a quarter of all income in the US now goes to the top 1%, while most Americans’ income is lower today than it was a dozen years ago.
Today’s skewed media narratives ignore or neglect the benefits of migration.
With high unemployment in many parts of the labor market, downward pressure on wages will further exacerbate the country’s already skewed income-distribution.Labor markets will eventually clear, but this will happen slowly and painfully, owing to skills gaps and other short-term mismatches.
The US Congress refuses to ratify the agreement reached in 2010 to correct this skewed state of affairs.
Since energy costs much more than food, biofuel subsidies have skewed crop patterns significantly.
Relaxing the one-child policy might have some positive impact in the very long run, but China is already past the tipping point, pushed there by the combined effect of gender imbalance and a very skewed age structure.
But food is so addictive, and the environment so skewed toward unhealthy outcomes, that it is time to think about broader government intervention.
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