Income inequality casts a long shadow.

As a result, income inequality in Brazil is declining.

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.

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

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

Given existing inequality, the absolute income gain to the rich will be greater much greater than the gains to the poor.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Societies that promise equality of opportunity thus cannot afford to allow inequality of outcomes to become too great.

Inequality has been falling.

The inequities are obvious.

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Long periods of zero real interest rates carry the danger of asset bubbles, misallocation of resources, and unintended effects on income inequality, as recent history not least in the US and Japan demonstrates.

Income inequality is at historic highs, but the rich claim that they have no responsibility to the rest of society.

China s income distribution has become highly skewed at 0.438, the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, puts the country closer to the United States than to northern Europe s egalitarian societies (with the exception of the United Kingdom).

Unemployment is high, income disparities have worsened, and corruption remains widespread, notwithstanding important improvements in recent years. Despite official statistics that place less than a third of the population below the poverty line, experts reckon that roughly half the population is trapped in poverty, amid a large urban rural gap.

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Even today, income inequality in Latin America is among the highest in the world, reflecting the old patterns of ethnic and racial division.

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.

Having analyzed the distribution of income among different social groups, Kuznets put forward the hypothesis that in countries, which wereon the early stages of economic development, income inequality increased first, but as far as national economy was growing, it tended to decrease.

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Of course, inequalities between countries are one thing, and inequalities within countries are quite another.

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.

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This kind of inequality should be a source of concern.

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