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Finance & Development
September 2011 |
More or Less Income inequality has risen over the past quarter-century instead of falling as expected.   |
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July 9, 2007
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An Upside To Inequality? Policymakers must search for ways to expand the number of jobs that can base pay on performance and allow more workers to share in the gains. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Haves and Have Less Research is showing that, in many countries, inequality is on the rise and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, particularly over the past quarter-century. |
The Motley Fool
November 26, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Making More Than $50 Million Per Year Income distribution gone wild. Income inequality is incredibly strong. The top 1% of earners made about as much as the bottom 48%. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 4, 2012
Jim Heskett |
Income Inequality: What's the Right Amount? Inequality can serve capitalism as an incentive, but too much of it is not good for markets. What's the right amount of income disparity? |
Finance & Development
December 2010
Kumhof & Ranciere |
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. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Rodney Ramcharan |
Inequality Is Untenable If policymakers neglect income distribution, the consequences for individuals and society can be grave. |
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. |
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
September 2011 |
Unemployed in Europe European countries can take a number of steps to protect vulnerable groups from unemployment and help reduce income inequality. |
Finance & Development
September 2011
Berg & Ostry |
Equality and Efficiency Is there a trade-off between the two or do they go hand in hand? |
Reason
November 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Bourgeois Boom Those who fear increasing inequality should take to heart a new study that finds the middle class is expanding, gaining about 70 million people a year in an unprecedented worldwide boom. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
David Dollar & Aart Kraay |
Trade, Growth, and Poverty How has many developing countries' increased participation in international trade affected their economic growth rates, and what implications has this had for the international distribution of income and the incidence of poverty? |
BusinessWeek
May 30, 2005
Aaron Bernstein |
Why The Greenspan Fix Didn't Work Slower-than-expected wage growth and soaring inequality have wreaked havoc with Social Security. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Robert Hunter Wade |
The Rising Inequality of World Income Distribution A lot is at stake in the question of whether world income distribution has become more, or less, equal over the past twenty years or so. What could cause rising inequality? What are the consequences? |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
How Bush Widened the Wealth Gap Not since the '20s has income inequality been this great. If Bush is reelected, America will continue down the path of increasing inequality in income, wealth, and health, with dangerous implications for U.S. democracy. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 6, 2013
James Heskett |
Is 'Conscious Capitalism' an Antidote to Income Inequality? John Mackey, cofounder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, is no fan of big government and the "crony capitalism" he believes it fosters. His prescription is described in a new book, Conscious Capitalism, that he coauthored. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Michael P. Keane & Eswar S. Prasad |
Poland: Inequality, Transfers, and Growth in Transition Poland is one of the great success stories of transition. Poland's success can be attributed to its early stabilization program, the strength of its subsequent market-oriented reforms, and generous social programs... |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Arvind Panagariya |
Growing out of Poverty Economic expansion reduces poverty by creating employment opportunities and making anti-poverty programs fiscally feasible. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Unequal = Indebted Higher income inequality in developed countries is associated with higher domestic and foreign indebtedness. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Meet the 1% A look at the top 1% of earners, and trends in executive compensation. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2007
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
March 2011
Alicia Barcena |
Spreading the Wealth Poverty and inequality have declined in Latin America in recent years, but there is a lot more to do. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 7, 2014
James Heskett |
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed? Has wealth disparity become such a burden on society that democracy is threatened? The polarizing work of Thomas Piketty is considered and opens the floor for debate. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2011
Selena Maranjian |
How America Is Worse Than Egypt This big problem is driving a wedge through the U.S. -- and the stock market. When it comes to income inequality, the United States ranks worse than Egypt. |
Reason
June 2009
Brink Lindsey |
Nostalgianomics The rise in income inequality does raise issues of legitimate public concern. But the caricature of postwar history put forward by purveyors of nostalgianomics won't lead us anywhere. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Who Owns the Stock Market? Wealth inequality in America. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010 |
Bequests and Parity Edward Wolff finds that small inheritances are equalizing, and you don't want to tax them away. That is very relevant to the current debate on whether the estate tax should be maintained. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Dani Rodrik |
Growth Versus Poverty Reduction: A Hollow Debate |
