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In the United States, according to the recently released World Inequality Report 2018, the share of national income claimed by the
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1% of the population rose from 11% in 1980 to 20% in 2014, compared to just 13% for the entire bottom half of the population.
In Brazil, the
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1% accounts for 25% of national income.
In Russia, the income share of the
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1% of the population increased from 4% in 1980 to 20% in 2015.
A look at the
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10% of earners shows similar trends.
Sadly, the pronouncements from Trump’s White House seem to be aimed at undermining any sense of order, with the hope that the US will come out on
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in some future Hobbesian struggle for total global dominance.
In this new world, China and Russia are back and America, though still on top, is declining.
A massive gap between the elites and everyone else ensured that the
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echelons of literature, business, and politics were managed by the wealthy few, and that the talents that would emerge a generation later, in the wake of wider state-funded education, were suppressed.
Tentatively, Iran is starting to address three other
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US concerns:1.
Whereas Sarkozy views nuclear power as a promising source of “renewable” energy, Germany remains adamantly opposed to it – a policy that Chancellor Angela Merkel placed at the
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of her agenda during Germany’s EU presidency in 2007.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, for example, noting that he is “not a big media press access person,” flies around the world without a press entourage – unsurprising for a former CEO of a multinational oil company, but highly unusual for the
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US diplomat.
Now, on
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of the so-called “north-south” split that emerged from the economic crisis, the United Kingdom’s potential exit from the EU, and the critical situation in Greece, a new breach, between east and west, has appeared in Europe.
A glimpse of what it meant to be the child of a very
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leader can be found in Svetlana Stalin's account of her brother, Vasily.
A recent paper by economists from Bard College and the Asian Development Bank categorizes the world economy according to four groups – with the
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two categories occupied by upper-middle-income and high-income countries – and tracks countries’ movements in and out of these groups.
Greece joined the international upper middle class in 1972, and then took 28 years to reach the
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income group, in 2000.
Of course, governments cite all sorts of reasons, security concerns such as those relating to terrorism now being at the
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of the list, to justify the repression of NGOs and other civil society groups.
In all of these cases, the goal is the same: to preserve political power and/or secure the economic interests of those at the
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The key question, however, is how much impact change at the
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will have on South Africa’s troubled democracy.
Consider the recent G7 summit in Quebec, where trade was at the
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of the agenda.
For this reason, the future shape of the International Monetary Fund is rapidly moving to the
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of the agenda for world leaders as they prepare to meet in Washington in mid-November to discuss the future of the global financial system.
This week, Putin told the United Russia party that he will place his name at the
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of its ballot for the parliamentary election scheduled for December 2, which could enable him to become Russia’s new prime minister after the presidential election due in March 2008.
Signature efforts to diversify and modernize the economy failed, because disruptive technologies and business strategies cannot be decreed from the
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The
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priority at the conference must be to secure a ceasefire.
To the dismay of some democratic forces, Bhutto stayed the course even after Musharraf imposed emergency rule on November 3 and removed the country’s
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judges to ensure his re-election.
Tung turned out to be shallow, radical in his views, more chauvinist than China’s
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leaders, and prone to rash decision-making on important policies with wide-ranging social and economic consequences.
But even a figure like British Prime Minister John Major, who was fast-tracked to the top, served as a junior social services minister, foreign secretary, and chancellor of the exchequer before taking over the premiership.
But, after the unexpected death of his mentor, the skillful machine politician and Labour Party leader John Smith, he was catapulted to the top, as though by divine right.
With Trump, the rocket to the
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fired on all boosters.
In time, he agreed to “share” power with the winner, Morgan Tsvangirai, who was subsequently named the country’s prime minister – but only after he and his
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aides faced violence and death threats as part of an effort to make him back down.
If Merkel wants to protect her chancellorship, her only option after the 2013 general election is a grand coalition with the SPD, and, to emerge on
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in such an arrangement, she needs every vote within the center-right camp that she can get.
The
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priorities include modernizing the country’s transport and energy infrastructure, reforming an underperforming education system, improving the labor market, bringing order to an overly-fragmented fiscal structure, enhancing the provision of public goods, and safeguarding America’s interests abroad.
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