There are important distributional consequences, and they're not what you always might think.

With regard to further initiatives to be considered by the special session, topics related to poverty reduction and eradication will inevitably be included, such as equity and distributional issues, which will be addressed in the Report of the World Social Situation 2000.

In fact, under fiscal pressure, the opposite is more likely. In the US, few practical measures that address the distributional challenge appear to be part of either major party s electoral agenda, notwithstanding rhetoric to the contrary.

In a world of slow growth, high debt, and tremendous distributional pressures, whether inflation is dead or merely dormant is an important question. Yes, massive institutional improvements concerning central banks have created formidable barriers to high inflation.

After all, when I met with them, I posed the same question in a different guise, emphasizing the likely distributional effects of trade. This time, the free trade consensus evaporated even more rapidly than I had anticipated.

This distributional quandary lies at the heart of the capitalist system, which is one of never ending competition fueled by the drive to maximize profits. In such a world, there is no room for a social conscience.

That sometime means making hard choices of the type that the US and many other developed countries are facing now. If we make these choices poorly, growth will suffer and future distributional choices will be far more painful.

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Technological innovation and global market forces have produced a decisive shift in income toward capital and the upper 20 of the income distribution, often at the expense of middle income groups, the unemployed, and the young. The beneficiaries of these trends may have accumulated enough political influence to maintain the status quo, highlighting distributional issues that have generally received too little attention in understanding policy responses or their absence.

Advocates of monetary stimulation sometimes argue that it is preferable because it is more neutral in its distributional effects, and that its benefits are spread more widely. But monetary stimulus is often in reality just as selective as bailouts.

MONUC and ONUB senior staff also held quarterly coordination meetings on political issues military issues code of conduct disarmament, demobilization and reintegration security sector reform issues humanitarian issues electoral issues and administrative issues.

And yet this is precisely what many governments are required to do pursue both growth and distributional fairness. The two objectives, though not incompatible, are entirely different from one another, and few policy tools can simultaneously help to achieve both.

These are not religious issues they're human issues.

This has brought a tremendous, and ongoing, growth in income levels, opportunities, and the size of the global economy. But these new workers have also brought more employment competition and significant shifts in relative wages and prices, which is having profound distributional effects.

After all, past investment shortfalls have to be made up and future oriented investments undertaken simultaneously a double burden that must be borne by the current generation. An inability to resolve the distributional and fairness problem can produce gridlock, paralysis, and prolonged stagnation.

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A number of outstanding issues were discussed, including border issues.

These are not theoretical issues but issues of deadly urgency.

G. Inter thematic issues emerging social issues and managing globalization

G. Inter thematic issues emerging social issues and managing globalization

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