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If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that, as a society, the benefits we have received from information-age technology have been neutralized by the envy and spite that results from living in a world that is ever more unequal.
But it fell precipitously in Latin America, from a scandalous 55.1 in 2000 – which made the continent the world’s most unequal region – to a still-very-high 50.2 a decade later.
The average drop for the nine emerging countries – including the still hugely unequal South Africa – that she compares is more than three points (55.7 to 52.5).
As outcomes have become increasingly unequal, there has been a fragmentation of interests across the electoral spectrum, leading to instability in electoral outcomes, political paralysis, and frequent changes in policy frameworks and direction.
Wage gains have also become considerably more unequal, with the biggest increases claimed by the top 10% of earners.
Yet the remaining challenges are huge, for Brazil remains the seventh most unequal society in the world – and severe violence persists.
We live in an ever more interconnected global economy, and on an increasingly unequal and unstable planet.
The ANC has been accused of losing touch with its impoverished voters in one of the most unequal countries on earth.
As I argued in a recent lecture, such an economy would probably be a very unequal one, with a small number of IT experts, fashion designers, brand creators, lawyers, and financial traders earning enormous incomes.
Financial markets have proven unequal to the task of recycling savings from places where incomes exceed consumption to places where investment is needed.
The UN report identifies four overarching and interconnected factors that impede gender equality in all forms of work, and at all levels of development: adverse social norms, discriminatory laws and insufficient legal protections, gender gaps in unpaid household and care work, and unequal access to digital, financial, and property assets.
Doing this would not only reduce the unequal burden now being carried by the unemployed; it would also help to sustain consumption, and perhaps reduce some precautionary savings among those who fear losing their jobs in the future.
Advanced-country politicians are locked in bizarre, often toxic, conflicts, instead of acting on a growing economic consensus about how to escape a protracted period of low and unequal growth.
China, after all, is now one of the world’s most unequal countries.
Most Chinese once lived under conditions of high equality and high misery; today, they live in an unequal society where the income of the poorest 10% grew by almost 65% between 1980 and 2015.
Most of today's politicians, intellectuals, and other professionals over the age of 40 were the victims of that unequal conflict.
Likewise, climate change is symptomatic of a grossly unequal economy in which the rich exploit the environment for private gain.
In such a system, opportunities for economic advancement become unequal as well, reinforcing low levels of social mobility.
They demand a voice in politics, a stake in the country’s grossly unequal economy, and the chance for upward mobility that they saw in Thaksin and his populist programs.
The same study also showed that wages in the public sector are significantly less unequal than in the private sector.
American society is very unequal (and China’s is slightly more so).
In doing so, they are exposing the gap between the promise of opportunity and the grim reality of unequal chances – especially for girls, who comprise the majority of the 260 million children worldwide who are not in school, and the majority of the 400 million children who finish their education by the age of 11 or 12.Indeed, half the worlds’ children – some 800 million – finish school without any of the qualifications needed for the workforce of tomorrow.
Good progress was made in the primary sector, but access to secondary and university-level education still remains highly unequal.
The increasingly visible effects of climate change, rising geopolitical tensions, state crisis and collapse, inadequate or unequal economic opportunities, and the spread of infectious diseases – to name just some of the highest-profile threats – have created an environment of great uncertainty.
The world was getting steadily richer, but the income distribution within countries was becoming steadily more unequal.
At the same time, the demonstrations represent China’s experience of the world as an unequal place where the weak are inevitably bullied, exploited, and humiliated.
Much of the emotional force of Mao’s revolution derived from the widespread sense of unequal treatment and humiliation by foreign powers, and this revolutionary fervor has never been properly interred.
According to this narrative, the Ottoman Empire offers a model of segregated, unequal, but peaceful co-existence of multiple ethno-religious communities.
To be sure, modern welfare states have far from abolished social inequality, with disparities in access to material and human resources continuing to generate highly unequal lives among their citizens.
In other words, it is not just Indonesia’s income distribution that concerns us, but how unequal access to health care, education, and social services has become.
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