Rio's dealers seem to be an exception to Brazil's national picture of unequal income distribution.

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Socialism can never be dead, thanks to the unequal distribution of wealth in this maddening world.

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But gradually there grew to be far too many of us, and our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together.

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Just to be clear: given that the US is a more unequal country than many others I would expect, by the measure of 50% of median income, the US to have more poor people and a greater portion of children living in poverty so defined.

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Synergos tries to step back, understand the underlying causes that compromise the lives of those who are poor or unequal in their enjoyment of rights and consider all that needs to be done to bring about significant and lasting change.

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An economic wedge--to help restore Pakistan to growth rates it had attained before the current crisis and to help spread the bounty among a most unequal society--could be supplied by the ADB.

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So I do no believe we can politically sustain the path we have been on, watching as market outcomes, what folks in this room call primary distribution income, grow increasingly unequal and hope to address these vast inequities through tax policies and transfer that politically cannot be sustained, in my view.

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In fact, both the socialists and the investment bankers are half right and make the case that unequal outcomes and equality of opportunity are twin virtues the twin pillars of sustainable and competitive countries to be embraced and celebrated.

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