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- Inequality is destroying society and it is not inevitable; it is a choice that reveals us as lacking in both empathy and imagination. Our leaders need to imagine new economic processes and structures to create a fairer, more equal world and to save our planet.
Jan 16, 2023 · Global inequality is a failure of imagination. Here's why Under the theme of “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”, leaders at Davos discussed how to tackle interconnected crises and systemic inequalities to enable social mobility and social equity.
The vast majority of people worldwide hold values of fairness, peace, and generosity that their governments systematically disregard or suppress. This disconnect is evident everywhere. Most people approve of inequality in the range of 1 to 5, but live in stark realities that often exceed 1 to 5,000.
Sep 2, 2021 · Global inequality has in fact been declining for several decades according to many standard measures. The figure below shows this decline as measured by the Gini index (on which 100...
Feb 4, 2015 · Whether living in a developed or a developing nation, inequality has direct implications for an individual’s outcome or even lifespan—researchers at the Brookings Institution found a four-year difference in life expectancy between those in the top cohort of income and those at the bottom.
However, in the global setting of the last three decades the inequality issue is not so much of population movements across countries, but rather of dramatic shifts in relative per capita incomes – which determine the between country component of global inequality.
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Top Highlights. We can only conclude that the elite own the rules and their functionaries fight to rig them in their interests, especially on tax, labour rights, monopolies and intellectual property; on land control, planning and extraction rights, and union-busting.
