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From 1998 to 2008, the middle class in advanced economies experienced no income growth, while incomes soared by nearly 70% for those at the
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of the global income distribution.
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earners in the US, accounting for half of the global
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1%, reaped a significant share of globalization’s benefits.
Germany’s
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officials ostensibly went on vacation in order to create the impression that the tensions could easily be resolved.
Publicly Funded InequalityWASHINGTON, DC – One of the factors driving the massive rise in global inequality and the concentration of wealth at the very
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of the income distribution is the interplay between innovation and global markets.
Effective governance of the security sector requires sustained political will at the
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of the government, particularly a readiness to push reforms to sectors of the government and economy with which the security sector interacts.
China’s reform process can succeed only if it is pushed from the
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and the bottom.
Some of the world’s
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economists – including four Nobel laureates – answered this question at the Copenhagen Consensus in 2004, listing all major policies for improving the world according to priority.
They found that dealing with HIV/AIDS, hunger, free trade, and malaria were the world’s
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priorities.
China has placed the industrial development of green technologies at the
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of its agenda.
As a result, the tax change left around 60% of households worse off, even as average household income grew, driven by gains at the
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According to the Asset Owners Disclosure Project, which I chair, the
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500 global asset owners are alarmingly exposed to the dangers of climate change.
Google the weather where you live and you will get the forecast for the next few days as the
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result, saving you time and effort.
In particular, the stubborn Dutchman understood the extreme danger if Europe’s
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monetary authority became too cozy with Europe’s politicians, especially at a time when many EU finance ministers view economic reform and excess liquidity as being essentially the same thing.
As I heard Bill Clinton say privately, shortly after his presidency, that choice should not be “to try to stay
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dog on the global block in perpetuity, but to create a world in which we are comfortable living when we are no longer
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dog on the global block.”
Some even lost the land they had lived upon for generations – the
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soil simply slid away, leaving behind hard rock and rubble.
We saw relief workers throw packets of food and clothes from the
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of trucks, causing a riot.
In February, China’s
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climate negotiator, Yu Qingtai, said at the UN that rich nations, which “caused the problem of climate change in the first place,” must be treated as “culprits,” and developing countries as “victims.”
Russians know that, one day, these unassuming political beasts of burden suddenly come out on top, as Stalin did in the early 1920s.
In chess magazines, one often sees comments from
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players such as “My silicon friend says I should have moved my King instead of my Queen, but I still think I played the best ‘human’ move.”
Many commercially available computer programs can be set to mimic the styles of
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grandmasters to an extent that is almost uncanny.
The Reagan tax plan used changes in deductions and other accounting rules to pay for major cuts in tax rates that lowered the
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rate from 50% to 28%.
The
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rate has increased from 28% to 39.6% on wages and salaries, and to more than 43% on some forms of investment income.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the effective tax rate fell for most income groups in the 30 years from 1984 to 2013, but it rose substantially for the
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1%.
But for the
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1%, the effective tax rate rose 3.4 percentage points, to 34%.
Against this background of rising tax rates and a shift in the tax burden to those with the highest income levels, it would not be surprising if Congress reduced the
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tax rates and broadened the tax base in a revenue-neutral way.
Nowadays, the world’s
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universities teach computer science and engineering classes online.
As it stands, only wealthy young people in the Arab world, without personal commitments such as families and jobs, can pursue continuous learning, in the form of graduate degrees from
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universities.
The Sino-American MirrorHONG KONG – November was a month of major leadership changes around the world, including Xi Jinping’s confirmation as China’s
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official and US President Barack Obama’s re-election.
No government is truly willing to tackle the causes of inequality and hunger, which would require making fair taxation and comprehensive welfare a
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priority.
Obama and his
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advisers have spoken regularly about the need to address the underlying sources of conflict, including poverty and unemployment.
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