His country was convinced that the principal cause of poverty was inequality and the power structure that sustained it both within nations and internationally.

Democratic Inequality

Indeed, nowadays meritocracy seems to be simply another version of the inequality that characterises all societies. It may in fact be a particularly cruel form of inequality, as those who do not succeed cannot argue that they were unlucky or kept down by those in power.

Ebola and Inequality

The Inequality Trifecta

When Inequality Kills

An Inequality Tax

Inequality and Discontent

The Inequality Trap

Good and Bad Inequality

Inequality, Immigration, and Hypocrisy

Inequality and the Internet

Inequality on the March

Is Inequality Inhibiting Growth?

The Heirs of Inequality

The Instability of Inequality

Inequality is Killing Capitalism

The Price of Inequality

A rising power, beset with internal inequality, turns to nationalism and challenges the dominant power, provoking a war that turns back the progress of economic globalization. While the American and Chinese economies are highly interdependent today, so, too, were Germany and Britain before 1914.

Inequality and the American Child

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New Light on Income Inequality

How Inequality Fueled the Crisis

One negative consequence is the persistent deepening of income inequality. The Gini coefficient of per capita income has surpassed 50 (with 100 representing maximal inequality), putting China in the upper quartile of inequality worldwide.

Poverty and inequality continue to grow unchecked in many countries, and inequality grows, in particular, between countries and between regions.

Inequality on the Horizon of Need

And again, closely related to inequality.

How the Fed Just Reduced Inequality

Yet never has inequality been greater.

Richard Wilkinson How economic inequality harms societies

The Rising Costs of US Income Inequality

Statistical indicators are useful for measuring inequality.

Recent trends in inequality were not encouraging.

Studies point that they are girls who are responsible for their sick relatives or replace labor power in the fields, a factor that can easily contribute to their abandonment of school thus worsening their gender inequality.

Violence and conflict were often rooted in inequality, authoritarian regimes, poverty and exclusion, while inequality was a contributing factor in social disintegration and violence.

These developments seem to add to global inequality. So, on balance, it seems that global inequality has been relatively stable during the last two decades.

Globalization, inequality and the labour markets. Mimeo, UNCTAD, Geneva.

Inequality was also reflected in the global unemployment situation.

An analysis of the average income of rural workers clearly shows the great inequality that exists between white and black women, and particularly the persistence of this inequality.

This inequality applies between countries as well as within countries.

The growing divide between rich and poor, stagnating real wages, and deep regional disparities in unemployment are both morally unacceptable and economically counterproductive. The EU s increasing income inequality misallocates the purchasing power that its economy desperately needs for growth and employment.

Others perceive calls for growth as a pretext to weaken employment protection or accept greater income inequality. They fear that, rather than delivering the promised benefits, painful reforms would tilt the distribution of power and income in favor of employers.

It seems to have evaded him that unchecked power might be more spiritually demeaning than competition. Corporatist subsidiarity lets the top of the hierarchy determine its own powers, while banishing competition and lauding private property generates inequality and inefficiency simultaneously.

Likewise, article 7 of the Convention, on women's right to equality in political and public life, is complemented by the Platform for Action's critical area of concern on inequality between women and men in the sharing of power and decision making.