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In a news environment increasingly prone to hyperventilation, it can be difficult to separate fact from fabricated or deliberately
skewed
content shared via social media.
Poverty, underdevelopment, and mal-development result from macroeconomic and industrial policies,
skewed
income distribution, and flawed market infrastructures.
When they become too skewed, circuit breakers kick in to restore balance.
If African products are forced to compete in markets
skewed
toward European and American producers, Africans do not have a fair chance to develop.
(China’s wealth distribution is now as
skewed
as that of the United States, one of the most unequal developed countries, where the GPI has not risen since the late 1970’s.)
In fact, Italy’s tax system is
skewed
in favor of savers.
“If things are left as they are,” writes Watanabe, “a
skewed
perception of history – without knowledge of the horrors of the war – will be handed down to future generations.”
The resulting conflicts of interest can make employee governance costly, both by complicating the process of decision-making and by producing decisions
skewed
toward the interests of dominant employee groups.
But even when China attempted to create a more reliably market-based system, investors’ responses were skewed, with unfounded expectations of a substantial and consistent devaluation fueling speculation in international markets.
China’s income distribution has become highly skewed: at 0.438, the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, puts the country closer to the United States than to northern Europe’s egalitarian societies (with the exception of the United Kingdom).
When it comes to taxes, it is critical to safeguard the growth model’s political legitimacy by ensuring that the system is not
skewed
in favor of the wealthy.
But preferences are
skewed
towards the free market for the same groups that benefited from reform.
There is also evidence that the distribution of returns to capital is becoming increasingly
skewed
toward these sectors.
Second, even if all of the capital dynamics that so concern Piketty could be wished away, the distribution of income in Latin America would still be appallingly
skewed.
Surely, if labor income is skewed, redistributing capital income or assets to the poor can boost overall equality.
Current public spending is so
skewed
toward the ruling elites that the CCP would risk losing its legitimacy should the budget become subject to public scrutiny.
Yet they are
skewed
by lumping the young in with older people.
These include “vertical inequalities,” like
skewed
income distribution, as well as “horizontal inequalities,” such as those that exist within groups because of factors like race, gender, and ethnicity, and those that form between communities, owing to residential segregation.
Or reporting about aid programs may be
skewed
to keep donor funds flowing.
The results for extreme pessimism were
skewed
in the opposite direction: 14% of Sunnis thought things were as bad as could be, while only 2% of Kurds and 3% of Shi’ites shared this opinion.
This is an important concern, especially given the increasingly
skewed
income distribution in developed countries.
It will also (partly) mitigate the concentration of wealth that results from a highly
skewed
income distribution.
In the United States, rising inequality has been a fact of life at least since the 1970s, when the relatively equitable distribution of economic benefits from the early post-World War II era started to become
skewed.
Daily stock price changes for the 100-business-day period ending August 3 were unusually negatively
skewed
in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom.
When a distribution is
skewed
and not symmetrical around a middle value, the mean can fail to describe properly the population and its change over time.
This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud,
skewed
representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.
Their population pyramids are now
skewed
towards middle-aged people who are in their most productive years and relatively free from the burden of raising children.
In many parts of the world, growth has been deeply
skewed
in favor of the rich; and it has been environmentally destructive – indeed, life-threatening when viewed on a century-long time scale, rather than according to quarterly reports or two-year election cycles.
But at the margin, economic growth is heavily
skewed
toward exports and fixed investment as the primary means of absorbing surplus labor and spreading prosperity.
The fact that the group’s recommendations do not align with much of the media’s reporting on them suggests either that the group’s report overstates its intentions, or that the reading of some media outlets has been
skewed.
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