Our first entry was about demographics, which is a challenge in China (as well as in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere). Today, let’s look at what China can teach us about inequality, and we’ll start with this
Most of what is framed as a problem of inequality is better conceived as either a problem ofpovertyor a problem ofunjustly acquired wealth. …It’s important to distinguish the concepts ofinequalityandpoverty. …Many people who worry about income inequality want to tax higher-income people more....
3340 E. Jové‑Llopis, E. Trujillo‑Baute The BSE definition of a 'vulnerable' household incorporates two extra conditions, independent of the those defined by income thresholds: 1. Being recognised as a familia numerosa or large family, understood to be one or two parents living with...
Today, that remains the majority view, but the gap has narrowed somewhat, with 60% seeing poverty as mostly permanent and 33% saying it is a temporary condition that people can move into and out of again.The poor divide closely on that question. So do minorities....
Was a farmin’ on the shares and always I was poor. My crops I lay into the banker’s store. My wife took down and died upon the cabin floor. And I ain’t got no home in this world anymore. Now as I look around it’s mighty plain to see this world is such a great and fun...
This realization should challenge us to identify policy spaces where planning for future global change threats can be integrated. Perspective matters This is not to say that institutional processes, policy and programme operations should stay the same – far from it. An ideal situation is where ...
posing a severe challenge to an initiative like the Copenhagen Consensus. The most important poverty-related target in the Millennium Development Goals was to reduce extreme poverty ($1 a day in terms of the PPP dollar at the time). Most of the other proposals being made as part of the pos...
I reported in the story that poverty will begin rising as these temporary aid measures expire. But the very fact that poverty has fallen dramatically this year is an important accomplishment—and one worth noting—because we are enduring an extraordinary economic challenge. I sense that you feel ...
3. On the question of demandingness, I remain neutral between the rival accounts. It is worth noting that the duty to alleviate poverty is not necessarily the same as a duty to send aid. Two points brings this out. First, there are other, possibly more effective, means to reduce global...
as part of a larger system of documentation and control, one that extends into the workplace and seeks to punish anyone who tries to challenge the hierarchies there: for example, by organizing a union. There is, in other words, a class politics inherent in these efforts to monitor and ...