Is sustainable authentic development compatible with widening
global economic disparities?
Not exact matches
In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax
disparities and
global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.
This education boom not only minimized some of the
disparity between social classes within our country, but it also helped to propel us towards
global economic leadership.
The two big issues are «differentiation» (how, in the face of vast international
economic disparities, can a
global system of stringent commitments be fair?)
Last Thursday, the World
Economic Forum stated in a risk assessment that income
disparity was one of the «Ten
Global Risks of Highest Concern in 2014.»
Global Warming: Changing Co2urse has several articles in Sessions 2 & 3 that deal with issues like equity, socio -
economic disparities, and green - collar jobs.
The recently published 2012
Global Risks Insight Report of the World Economic Forum features «severe income disparity» amongst the most likely global risks (at p
Global Risks Insight Report of the World
Economic Forum features «severe income
disparity» amongst the most likely
global risks (at p
global risks (at p. 11).