Together with Russia, and unlike China and India, Brazil has reduced economic inequality in recent years.
They also contribute to economic inequality as the insiders(the business oligoply) benefit over the outsiders.
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But these differences reflect, again, not unfair economic inequality, but differences in productive output.
In my testimony, I worried that rising economic inequality might provoke a populist backlash.
Economic inequality is at the highest level since the eve of the Great Depression.
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Furthermore, countries with greater levels of economic inequality also have higher instances of mental health issues.
The episode has exposed latent tensions nurtured by economic inequality and unresponsive governance in the oil-abundant Azerbaijan.
Today, the country's economic inequality is among the starkest in the world, wider than in Brazil and India.
Raising taxes reduces economic growth and tends to encourage corruption and economic inequality.
He warned that growing economic inequality threatened the future of the middle class.
For a while there, it looked like the 2012 election was going to be a referendum on economic inequality.
Progressive taxation is not the sole solution to extreme economic inequality in the US, but it can mitigate its effects.
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Before us are four headwinds too tough to overcome: debt, economic inequality, an aging population and a flawed education system.
Venezuela now has the lowest levels of economic inequality of any Latin American country as measured by the Gini coefficient.
But let it be clear that there are serious issues of economic inequality that deserve a hearing in our politics today.
They had not noticed that Iran's poor, more concerned with economic inequality than reform, were responding to a fiery young fundamentalist.
Or, some may prefer to look at this the way this New York Times article does, as an attack on economic inequality.
As in the United States, economic inequality falls along racial lines and Brazil's long legacy of slavery helps to perpetuate the injustice.
Although it is, in some places, now easier than ever for a woman to acquire power without marrying it, economic inequality has not disappeared.
That brings us to Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the movement that sprung out of the sense that economic inequality is hurting most Americans.
We need to acknowledge some hard truths about race and justice in this country, and one of those hard truths is that racial inequality is not merely a symptom of economic inequality.
The Cornell project is but one of several overseen by the Iscol Family Foundation (also known as the IF Hummingbird Foundation), which focuses on social justice, education, and economic inequality.
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Summers volunteered to serve as her thesis adviser, on how economic inequality contributes to spousal abuse, and he promoted a group called Women in Economics and Government that she co-founded.
The momentum behind the push for corporate sustainability disclosure in Rio is a reflection of the urgency of global threats such as climate change, water scarcity, and social and economic inequality.
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"If we close the achievement gap, then a big chunk of economic inequality in this society is diminished, " Obama told a small group of journalists from black media outlets, including ESSENCE.
Globally, economic inequality is on a longstanding upward trend.
We cannot effectively help survivors to heal or implement transformative violence prevention campaigns if we do not illuminate a whole spectrum discrimination issues, including racism, economic inequality, gender bias and heterosexist assumptions.
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Mr. JOHN EDWARDS (Former Democratic Senator, North Carolina): They have pledged to me that as president of the United States they will both make ending poverty and economic inequality central to their presidency.
But when it comes to issues of tax policy, budget management, economic inequality, and the relationship between the 99% and the 1%, Russia is precisely the sort of model he wants to adapt.
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The Times also has a nice article about two economic rock stars, Emanuel Saez and Thomas Picketty, who have been extremely effective at putting together data and analysis on rising economic inequality.
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