Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game.

So why don't Americans feel more alarm at their country's rising income inequality?

Rising income inequality, by redistributing income from those who spend more to those who save more, has exacerbated the demand shortfall.

In an age of rising inequality, at least some countries have narrowed their wealth and income gaps.

RIYADH The issue of rising income inequality loomed large at this year s World Economic Forum in Davos.

Income inequality casts a long shadow.

These trends are exacerbating income inequality.

Emerging economies still need to manage better their growing domestic tensions, which reflect rising income inequality and uneven access to basic services.

As a result, income inequality in Brazil is declining.

The most important determinant of income inequality today is wealth inequality, with the increasing concentration of asset ownership in recent years principally responsible for greater income inequality in most countries.

Moreover, many Americans anxiety is rooted in deepening income inequality.

a reversal of the country s now rising income inequality lowering the very high savings level relative to investment and thus reducing the current account surplus

And income inequality in Japan ranks among the lowest in Asia.

First, inequality has grown at both ends of the income scale.

One finds plenty of cases of rising inequality during spells of growth.

That caused rising inequality between the urban privileged and the rural poor.

Among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD), Japan has a relatively high incidence of income inequality (although there is some debate whether or not inequality is rising or falling).

Therefore, the political response to rising inequality whether carefully planned or the path of least resistance was to expand lending to households, especially low income households.

But cutting jobs reduces labor income, increases inequality and reduces final demand.

Rising inequality is redistributing income to those with a high propensity to save (the rich and corporations), and is exacerbated by capital intensive, labor saving technological innovation.

In other words, in countries where the level of income inequality is high, inequality is reduced less by growth than in countries where inequality is relatively low.

Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game. A government that cannot balance its own finances cannot be relied on to provide macroeconomic stability.

Whether or not that is justified, such companies contribution to rising income inequality and thus to regulatory capture, media bias, and disproportionate influence in elections cannot be ignored.

The unifying factor behind this rising anger is rejection of both real and perceived inequality inequality in both treatment and economic conditions.

Inequality could refer to healthcare inequality, economic inequality, global inequality, educational inequality, racial inequality, gender inequality, social inequality, and many more unequal constellations.

Romney s budget plan would also make the federal tax and transfer system considerably less progressive, thereby worsening income inequality, which is already at its highest level since the Great Depression. Rising income inequality fuels a growing opportunity deficit for children born into poor and middle income families, reflected in disparities in educational attainment by family background, and a decline in intergenerational mobility.

At a time of rising anxiety among middle income voters about wealth inequality, and growing awareness of the unsustainability of Social Security and Medicare, this conversation could not be more important.

Inequality is rising in many G 20 countries in some cases, it has reached historic highs.

But cutting jobs weakens final demand further, because it reduces labor income and increases inequality.

The causes of rising income and wealth inequality are multiple and nuanced but the unintended consequences of the recent unprecedented period of ultra loose monetary policy deserves a chunk of the blame.

Concurrent with diminishing labor income, government imposed ceilings on bank deposits the primary savings vehicle for most households have held down household capital income. This fall in income has been magnified by rising household savings rates, driven by insufficient insurance for health care and old age, the high cost of education, growing income inequality, and demographic trends.

But a country s poverty rate also depends on the degree of income inequality a reduction in which makes growth more pro poor and inequality in China has, in fact, increased more rapidly than in India. So a rising tide really can lift all boats, with growth trumping inequality when it comes to poverty reduction.

Thomas Piketty s Marxian claim that capitalism is failing because domestic inequality is rising has it exactly backwards.

They have only limited land, and if one assumes ever increasing GDP and rising income inequality, there will always be more and more wealthy people to bid up prices in these scarce areas.

To be sure, income inequality and social injustice are a concomitant of capitalist culture throughout the West.

It is crucial to distinguish inequality in productivity among firms from unequal distribution of income within firms.

Macedonia also has highest income inequality in Europe, with a higher geni coefficient (43.6) than Russia's (42).

To outsiders, the most peculiar thing about America's rising inequality is that so few Americans object. Surely a society with a skewed income distribution is worse off than one in which incomes are more equal.

Because of rising inequality, the overwhelming majority of Mexicans live no better off than they did 15 years ago.

So a rising tide really can lift all boats, with growth trumping inequality when it comes to poverty reduction.

There was a deeper concern behind this newly discovered passion for housing for the poor growing income inequality.

Now, however, with inequality on the rise once more, arguments linking income concentration to macroeconomic problems have returned.

But if the share of the highest income groups keeps rising, the problem will remain chronic.

They point to worsening income inequality, as images beamed worldwide from post hurricane New Orleans illustrated all too clearly.

Authoritarian regimes, especially those with severe income and wealth inequality, inherently create a risk of arbitrariness, unpredictability, and instability.