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Finance & Development
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Inequality Is Untenable If policymakers neglect income distribution, the consequences for individuals and society can be grave. |
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Smart Economics In the long run, greater gender equality in access to opportunities, rights, and voice can lead to more efficient economic functioning and better institutions, with dynamic benefits for investment and growth. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
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Poverty Reduction Although Latin America and the Caribbean reduced the incidence of poverty during the 1990s, population increases and the greater income inequalities that had developed during the 1980s stymied the region's efforts to reduce the number of poor people. How can its policymakers fight poverty most effectively and better protect the poor during economic crises? |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Unequal = Indebted Higher income inequality in developed countries is associated with higher domestic and foreign indebtedness. |
Reason
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L. E. Birdzell Jr. |
How the East Grew Poor Imperial weather and the poverty of nations -- a review of Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World, by Mike Davis... |
Finance & Development
March 2011
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Spreading the Wealth Poverty and inequality have declined in Latin America in recent years, but there is a lot more to do. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
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Growing out of Poverty Economic expansion reduces poverty by creating employment opportunities and making anti-poverty programs fiscally feasible. |
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June 1, 2007
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Budgeting with Women in Mind When leaders in developed and developing countries alike ponder ways to boost growth, reduce inequality, and improve living standards, the enduring battle of the sexes is most likely the last thing on their minds. But reducing gender disparities can lead to improved macroeconomic performance. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
A Bigger Slice of a Growing Pie Developing the financial sector accelerates economic growth and can enhance income equality. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
Globalization: The Story Behind the Numbers Has globalization raised living standards?... What is globalization?... Has globalization helped the poor?... Has globalization reduced inequality?... What should governments do?... Globalization timeline... |
Finance & Development
December 2010
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Leveraging Inequality THE United States experienced two major economic crises over the past 100 years -- the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2007. Income inequality may have played a role in the origins of both. |
TIME Asia
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Thank You for Sharing Many young Asians have known only two kinds of economic growth -- fast and faster. But what about the problems that cannot be resolved by growth alone? |
The Motley Fool
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Dan Caplinger |
Is the American Dream Dead? The American Dream is alive and well. But it won't come automatically to everyone. Only hard work, plus a change in mindset, will help the average citizen find the U.S. economy's unique paths to economic prosperity. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Shang-Jin Wei |
Is Globalization Good for the Poor in China? Developing countries worry that opening up to trade with the rest of the world may make the poor poorer and the rich richer, with China sometimes cited as an example of growing income inequality. A recent IMF study, however, finds that the reality is far more complex. |
