Thus, correct measurement of global inequality leads to, if we want to reduce global inequality, our championing the industrialisation of the poor countries along with the globalisation that allows us to purchase those products.
First, whether rising or not, because of globalisation or not, global inequality is shockingly high.
Global inequality is indeed falling and as we can see the formerly poor are getting rich.
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Now it is true that global inequality is vastly greater than it was, say, 300 years ago.
Further, if we look at the work of Branko Milanovic we find that global inequality is falling.
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One of the things that the globalisation of the past few decades has done is lower global inequality.
As a result of all of the above global inequality has been falling.
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Global inequality, the only form that I can see it being just and righteous to complain about, has been falling.
When, however, the advantages of birth and background account for 80% of global inequality, we cannot sit back and do nothing.
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However, as Milanovic himself points out, as and when India is growing strongly even this measure is showing falls in global inequality.
As some to many of those poor countries are having their won industrial revolutions it is possible that global inequality is falling.
Let us assume that global inequality is something that you worry about.
As it happens, when the poor countries are having their industrial revolutions global inequality (by either Concept 2 or 3 measures) seems to decline.
Mr Wade set the bait by asserting (on the basis of no good evidence) that global inequality is rising because of liberalisation and globalisation.
When as much as 80% of global inequality is explained by birth and background, education should be the counterweight, the driver of equal opportunity.
With this measure global inequality is clearly falling in recent decades.
You both miss the two real challenges that global inequality poses.
Surprisingly, over the same period global inequality has fallen, from 0.66 in the mid-1980s to 0.61 in the mid-2000s, according to Xavier Sala-i-Martin, an economist at Columbia University.
By the 2000s the large majority of emerging economies were growing consistently faster than rich countries, so much so that global inequality at last started to fall even as the gaps within many countries increased.
Yes, inequality within countries is rising, but the inequality over the whole global population is falling.
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He said Cuba shared the Pope's concerns over global poverty, inequality and environmental destruction.
Since joining CNN in 2009, Sutter has reported on a wide range of topics for the network, from income inequality to environmental justice and global human rights.
For much of the 20th century the developing countries were held back by an adapted socialist ideology that put global injustice, inequality and victimhood front and centre.
Liberalised global finance and rising inequality may thus have led to surging public debts.
If you measure inequality of wealth rather than income, the global pecking order changes.
The charity called for a "global new deal to reverse decades of increasing inequality".
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If inequality is one of those things that you worry about, surely a little more in-country inequality is a small price to pay for a fall in global?
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