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Without them, the continent is more likely to experience rising unemployment, widening inequality, social disorder, and, ultimately, conflict and chaos.
Premier Wen Jiabao himself recognizes the urgent need to address the country’s inequitable growth, calling for means to be found to “share prosperity evenly,” and thus to reduce the widening gaps between “rich and poor, cities and countryside.”
From that standpoint, in spite of a rapprochement between France and the United States, culminating in a joint UN resolution, the latest Middle East war is in reality widening and deepening the emotional gap that has existed between Europe and the US since the war in Iraq began.
The influence of widening disparities between the EU’s affluent “North” and the stumbling “South,” with France in the middle (but heading south), was also evident.
Without it, growth falters, job creation is insufficient, and widening income and wealth inequality undermines the social fabric.
Widening inequality provides fodder for political unrest, as citizens watch their prospects decline.
For example, it must tackle growing income inequality, driven largely by the massive disparity between urban and rural incomes, though the income gap among urban residents is also widening.
True, Europe is moving at a painfully slow pace, but the attack on the State and its allies in an ossified supply side and the dinosaurs of industrial stake holders, is widening.
Mounting regional disparities, as well as the widening urban-rural divide, impede household consumption growth, increasing the economy’s dependence on exports and foreign investment.
Instead, what it has is widening income inequality, falling life expectancy, a rising suicide rate, and epidemics of obesity, opioid overdoses, school shootings, depressive disorders, and other grave ills.
Unit labor costs fell in Germany and other parts of the core (as wage growth lagged that of productivity), leading to a real depreciation and rising current-account surpluses, while the reverse occurred in the PIIGS (and Cyprus), leading to real appreciation and widening current-account deficits.
The 2008 global financial crisis, the resulting recession, and rapidly widening income and wealth inequality have punctured the glib triumphalism of economics.
The audience is now told that losing tax revenue and widening the budget deficit was the plan all along.
Putting Asia's Gini Back in its BottleKLONG LUANG, THAILAND – Activists across Asia, inspired partly by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States, have been highlighting what they view as a widening divide between the haves and the have-nots, those with connections and those without.
Would the widening gap be as inconsequential as the proverbial tree that falls in the forest, with no one there to hear it?
This has severely degraded the quality of education at second- and third-tier universities concentrated in China’s inner provinces, thus widening the development gap between China’s urban coast and rural hinterland.
This is one of the reasons that America has the highest level of inequality of any of the advanced countries – and its gap with the rest has been widening.
The Rentiers Are HereGENEVA – Since the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers and international institutions have regularly expressed concerns about widening income inequality and its unwelcome political consequences.
Argentina's widening budget deficit is mainly the result of its economic collapse since 1999, not the cause of it.
Interest-rate spreads for Italy and Spain are widening again, while borrowing costs for Portugal and Greece remained high all along.
That is why interest-rate spreads in the eurozone periphery are widening again now.
They seem condemned by their heavy debt burdens to years of stagnation or slow growth, widening inequality, and possible social strife.
And, given the economic slowdown, widening income disparity, rising unemployment, and growing popular discontent over corruption, China’s leaders will have their hands full.
The current crisis has exposed the original lacunae and widening cracks in the compact between Europe’s citizens and EU institutions, between Europe’s north and south, and between its peoples and its elites.
Brazil should have been downgraded below investment grade last year, as the economy struggled with a widening fiscal deficit, a growing economy-wide debt burden, and a weak and worsening business environment.
Today, China provides a large and rapidly growing market for a widening array of previously unaffordable goods, and will increasingly produce as well as absorb new technologies.
The unprecedented economic expansion that has lifted millions out of poverty has been accompanied by widening income disparities, as well as serious environmental damage.
The result has been a widening gap between rich and poor, together with a commensurate rise in the type of urban poverty that so bedevils cities like Rio de Janeiro.
But it is not a strong recovery; at best, the gap between where the economy would have been and where it is today is not widening.
This points to a further compression in national saving, making a widening of an already outsize trade gap all but inevitable.
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