Moreover, they misidentify that cause: it is not poverty as such, but inequality.
The Occupy Wall Street campaign proved incoherent and ephemeral, but inequality and fairness have moved right up the political agenda.
There's private equity in hedge funds and all of that stuff, but inequality which is terrible in Brazil, is actually going down at the same time.
But inequality and social strains have grown between Jewish Israelis.
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Latin America has a few asset-seizing hard-left governments, notably Argentina and Venezuela, but inequality has also fallen in countries following a more orthodox economic course, such as Chile and Colombia.
Yes, inequality within countries is rising, but the inequality over the whole global population is falling.
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That does not mean inequality never aggravates macroeconomic instability, but unfortunately critics of inequality often exaggerate their claims.
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But these differences reflect, again, not unfair economic inequality, but differences in productive output.
We would see sharply rising wage inequality but not stagnant wages on average.
Another reason is the frustration of a government addicted to targets, which often aim not only to improve something but to lessen inequality in the process.
The Economist misses some obvious causes of inequality but is not afraid to call out the banks as a very bad case of redistribution towards the wealthy.
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The view that freedom might increase inequality but would promote more social mobility has turned out to be false, says David Laws, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on work and pensions.
Poorer Latin American families have become smaller, which reduces inequality, but these changes were well under way in the 1980s and 1990s.
Okay, Jim Webb says the issues that elected him were not just Iraq but also economic and inequality and the abuse of power.
And getting more of them to take jobs, argues Mr Borg, is the key not only to faster growth but also to keeping inequality low.
But the link between inequality and declining mobility is not inevitable.
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But others have noted that inequality also soared in the years before the Depression of the 1930s.
Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most sub-Saharan African nations, but because of high income inequality, a large proportion of the population remains poor.
The speed with which your body can clear the acid byproducts of metabolism and carry oxygen to your mitochondria are affected by cardiovascular training to be sure (confirmed), but there is a basic inequality set up by our very genetics.
Michael Bordo of Rutgers University and Christopher Meissner of the University of California, Davis, looked at 14 financial busts in rich countries between 1920 and 2008 and found that these crises were typically preceded by credit booms, but only occasionally by rising inequality.
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Inequality has been reduced but growth overall has been lower than in some other Latin American economies.
Of course, there are problems with charters, with the potential for increased inequality, etc. but these are not insurmountable obstacles.
But the larger issues of income inequality will dog them either way.
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People can decry the profit motive as an outworking of greed, or blast income inequality as unjust, but creating wealth is the only true cure for poverty.
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That fall to 0.34 may not sound like much, but it takes the level of inequality back to where it was in the late 1990s - and it occurred in a year in which average household incomes went back to where they had been in 2004-05.
Trade is not wholly responsible for rising wage inequality, he believes, but nor is it irrelevant.
Progressive taxation is not the sole solution to extreme economic inequality in the US, but it can mitigate its effects.
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Many of them are victims themselves, but they are waging a war against inequality in their homes and marginalisation and brutalization outside.
Say what you like about the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, but they have elevated the conversation about inequality in America to a level that no one else has done.
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