The inequities are obvious.

The inequities are obvious.

But dramatic gender inequities persist in South Asia, more so than in other low income countries.

As economic inequities and social conflict in China have grown more acute, ordinary people have become increasingly angry.

The role of the state, here as elsewhere, is one of correcting inequities rather than running the whole show.

Yet the two countries share similar national development goals increasing their citizens prosperity, narrowing social inequities, and addressing environmental sustainability.

Some viewers have been frustrated to see that in show, those challenging these inequities of privilege are depicted as the corrupt.

This would overcome both the inequities and the instability that is inherent in a global reserve system based on a national currency.

At their last meeting in Doha in November 2001, ministers recognized the inequities of the previous round of trade negotiations, the Uruguay round.

It must be emphasized that a system based on competing reserve currencies would not solve the instability and inequities of the current system.

To be sure, there is the additional feature that many higher education institutions have an endowment, which they can use to balance inequities.

Such adjustments will probably happen anyway in the coming decades, but only after a long lag and with many inequities in the process.

First, we will still have to find better ways of managing the world s economy, reducing its inequities, and coping with its environmental hazards.

I believe some of the inequities of the past can be addressed without any direct attack on property rights, no matter how dubiously acquired.

In the process, the risk of recession remains uncomfortably high, the unemployment crisis deepens, and inequities rise as already stretched social safety nets prove even more porous.

The movement s rapid growth was fueled by widespread opposition to what many regard as official efforts to regiment lifestyles, as well as by frustration over perceived economic inequities.

Thus, while ethnic inequities have been dramatically reduced over the past 50 years, the historical memory remains vivid to new generations of the now urban Aymaras and Quechuas people.

The worry is that, at least in some cases, the IMF will go back to its old failed recipes fiscal and monetary contraction, which would only increase global inequities.

Well before the riots that marked the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle in 1999, I called for a true development round of trade talks to redress the inequities of previous rounds.

Whether it was threats to the environment, inequities in the distribution of wealth, lack of a sane policy or a sustainable policy with respect to the continuing uses of energy, we were in desperate straits.

The first is the need for a truly global reserve currency, perhaps based on the IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). This would overcome both the inequities and the instability that is inherent in a global reserve system based on a national currency.

This is an atmosphere in which unhealthy balance sheets come under even greater pressure, and healthy investors refuse to engage. In the process, the risk of recession remains uncomfortably high, the unemployment crisis deepens, and inequities rise as already stretched social safety nets prove even more porous.

Finally, the issue for both countries is not corruption or inequality which are universal but equal opportunity and, in China s case, respect for property rights. Opaque and unfair delineation and allocation of land rights in China, together with state monopolies and burdensome bureaucracies, create distortions that give rise to corruption and inequities.

The worry is that, at least in some cases, the IMF will go back to its old failed recipes fiscal and monetary contraction, which would only increase global inequities. While developed countries engage in stabilizing countercyclical policies, developing countries would be forced into destabilizing policies, driving away capital when they need it most.

I believe some of the inequities of the past can be addressed without any direct attack on property rights, no matter how dubiously acquired. Russia could impose an excess capital gains tax, analogous in spirit to the tax imposed on US oil companies when their profits soared, through no effort of their own, from high oil prices in the 1970's.

Likewise, user fees discourage the poor and elderly from accessing needed health services, whereas public funding largely eliminates inequities in the provision of care while producing health outcomes that are as good as, if not better than, mixed public private funding models. Public funding also benefits a country s economy, because large employers are spared the expense of providing health benefits to their workers.