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Then again, part of our unease probably has to do with what we perceive as an unequal exchange.
Whereas a Gini coefficient of 1.0 means that a single person controls 100% of a country’s income/wealth, North Korea scores 0.86, the rather unequal United States scores 0.41, and Bitcoin scores an astonishing 0.88.
More Unequal than OthersBERKELEY – Inequality is on the public’s mind almost everywhere nowadays.
In fact, the consequence of policy often isn’t the same for men and women, in part because they tend to have unequal access to opportunities and resources.
Did she create a new economic dynamism, or did she leave the United Kingdom bitterly divided, more unequal, and less cohesive than before?
The great French observer of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, saw this face of American democracy in the 1830’s, noting that “Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
The world’s 50 most unequal economies are in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, with South Africa taking the prize for the highest income inequality.
By definition, any alliance with a superpower is unequal; so efforts to establish close ties with the United States have long run up against India’s tradition of strategic autonomy.
This unequal investment is neither equitable nor efficient.
The right-wing governments of the 1980s and 1990s were also corrupt; and, while national income rose, income distribution was among the most unequal in the world.
Only one-quarter of this decline is due to slower economic growth; the remainder is attributable to an increasingly unequal distribution of income.
Whether in New York, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, or New Delhi, a feeling of unease and a desire for change has emerged in societies that are becoming increasingly unequal, and in which politics and business mix in non-transparent ways.
In fact, given an increasingly unequal distribution of income between capital and labor (as well as across the income spectrum for labor) a larger store of public assets certainly has merit, as it equalizes the distribution of capital and wealth, albeit indirectly.
Such distinctions were not merely pernicious; they were often characterized by an unequal distribution of the resources of the state within a colonial society.
Why We Need Women in the MilitaryISLAMABAD – Saudi Arabia’s decision to allow women to serve in the military – part of its Vision 2030 economic-reform program – has been widely celebrated as a step forward for gender parity in the notoriously unequal kingdom.
In 1870, more than three-quarters of the world was illiterate, and access to education was even more unequal than income.
Now, however, with the era of multilateral trade rounds and system-wide rules behind us, the PTAs are the only game in town, and the templates established by the hegemonic powers in unequal trade treaties with economically weaker countries will increasingly carry the day.
It will exacerbate highly unequal competition.
Second, Paraguay’s political elite, regardless of party affiliation, are committed to preserving the country’s unequal land distribution and frustrating the development of politically autonomous peasant organizations.
Over the last four decades, Greece's leaders created a system of clientelism that transformed the country into the most unequal and socially unjust society in the European Union.
In fact, whereas economic growth in Latin America is often perceived as being very unequal – which explains the shift to the left – recent United Nations data puts the region in first place among all developing-country areas.
Governments must invest in transport and communication networks; counteract asymmetric information, externalities, and unequal bargaining power; moderate financial panics and recessions; and respond to popular demands for safety nets and social insurance.
Piketty argues that, because the world’s rich countries are growing at less than 4-5%, they are becoming more unequal.
Beyond that, more inclusive growth depends on the completion of the urbanization process that underpins the creation of a modern economy; addressing corruption and unequal access to market opportunities; and aggressively mitigating well-known and serious environmental problems.
A technologically stagnant agricultural society is bound to be an extremely unequal one: by force and fraud, the upper class push the peasants’ standards of living down to subsistence and take the surplus as the rent on the land they control.
Aside from the great damage caused by unequal bargaining power outside of the multilateral framework, the path of bilateral negotiations threatens to remove the focus from universal outcomes, which are the bedrock of globalization.
The Declaration unequivocally linked destitution and exclusion with discrimination and unequal access to resources and opportunities.
In fact, according to data from the International Narcotics Control Board and the World Health Organization, access to these drugs is shockingly unequal.
China, whose growth performance since 1970 has now broken every record, is well on its way to having the world’s most unequal income distribution.
It is crucial to distinguish inequality in productivity among firms from unequal distribution of income within firms.
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