Poverty and inequality remain serious problems.

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Inequality may be lower, perhaps, but poverty higher.

Even with Social Security s mildly redistributive effect, poverty and inequality in America are increasing.

Of course, there is no simple causal relationship linking poverty and inequality to violence.

Thus the mixed verdict is this less poverty, higher median incomes, and more inequality.

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

This is why international action to address both global poverty and global inequality is needed.

But, amid enduring poverty, rising inequality, and lackluster growth in many developing countries, the success of past anti poverty policies and programs appears dubious.

Deeply concerned also that gender inequality, violence and discrimination exacerbate extreme poverty, disproportionally impacting women and girls,

Hunger is widespread indeed, poverty and inequality have fueled much of the popular mobilization in the region.

Yet, despite these robust changes, poverty remains widespread, inequality abysmal, and social resentment is on the rise.

Though the Chávez revolution has made progress against poverty and inequality, it is hardly sustainable and reeks of patronage.

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This has helped to lower not only poverty, but also inequality, Latin America s traditional scourge.

For now, Americans and Continental West Europeans remain very different in their basic attitudes concerning poverty, inequality, and the welfare state.

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The situation of cardboard collectors highlights the persistence of inequality and worsening poverty in a First World country like Singapore.

A sustainable economic growth rate that helps reduce poverty and inequality can be achieved only with a skilled and innovative labor force.

In the social realm, WTO entry will increase inequality and the restructuring of the labor force into extremes of wealth and poverty.

As it integrates into the world economy, it must seek to sustain growth while protecting the environment and reducing poverty and inequality.

And yet, despite widespread concern and anxiety about poverty, unemployment, inequality, and extreme concentration of incomes and wealth, no alternative growth model has emerged.

While this has reduced poverty, inequality has been increasing, with growing disparities between cities and rural areas, and between coastal regions and the interior.

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.

The problems that can be addressed are those of poverty and social insurance of providing a safety net not of inequality.

Ensuring long term stability will require poverty reduction, job creation, reduced income inequality, and the development of these countries human resources.

But such proofs had scant effect on their opponents, who shout that globalization aggravates poverty and inequality while blighting communities and the environment.

The project by Jeff Hammond, Noah Bullock, and Doriana Westerman, focused on documenting Salvadoran themes that institutionalized poverty and inequality in the country.

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China's government must acknowledge that deep income inequality and rural poverty is no longer exclusively an economic problem, but threatens social peace and political stability.

They will ultimately realize that their self interest lies in supporting some form of global action to deal with both poverty and inequality.

Even if globalization did increase inequality a big if since nobody has shown it convincingly, it still reduces poverty.

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

As this system is gradually dismantled, Europeans will begin to experience more inequality though perhaps not American style poverty.

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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None of these indispensable and long postponed reforms will convince López Obrador s followers that the end of poverty and inequality in Mexico is around the corner.

These policies have characterised the federal government, and have in turn increased levels of vulnerability, poverty and inequality in the country over the last few years.

If we are to end poverty, reduce unemployment, and stem rising economic inequality, we must find new, better, and cheaper ways to teach and on a vast scale.