Sentences with phrase «global income inequality»

Records for global temperature rise keep getting broken; reports of worker exploitation and abuse show no signs of abating; and global income inequality continues to rise.

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The economist, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001, points to income inequality as a key consequence for global social unrest.

Income inequality is a hot topic in America, but rest assured that the millionaire class across the globe is adding to its ranks, and solidifying its hold on global wealth.

Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

These founders have witnessed the consequences of unfettered capitalism, and it isn't a pretty picture: global warming, pollution, income inequality, environmental degradation, and resource depletion.

Some of his favorite stories looked at facial bias, the philosophy of Peter Thiel, Chinese ghost cities, self - driving car ethics, the average family on earth, Wikipedia hoax - hunters, income inequality, bleak futurism, cooking with MSG, global communication patterns, Somali pirates, the crucifixion of Tony Stark, and the worst hotel in New York.

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For Canadians, it is important that our political parties start discussing and debating the policy actions a «new» government should take to respond to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observation, that the global economy, and therefore the Canadian economy, could be entering a long period of economic stagnation, characterized by slow growth, high unemployment and increasing income inequality.

Today, as the global population faces more serious challenges — from resource scarcity to concerns about income inequality and education — companies around the world are committing themselves to creating a profit while also defining their broader contribution to society.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been warning for months that the global economy and the Canadian economy are about to enter a period of global economic stagnation, high unemployment and growing income inequality.

Edited by Carnegie Senior Fellow Michael Pettis based in Beijing, China Financial Markets offers monthly insights into income inequality, market structures, and other issues affecting China and other global economies.

Other than climate change, extreme income inequality and pandemics, the global trust deficit may be one of the world's direst challenges - noting that they are all interconnected.

Benedict spoke out against unrestrained capitalism, income inequality and global warming.

We do not mean to be Apocalyptic, but, in the catalog of wars launched by states and of examples of dysfunctional management of our global ecology, we should also include the social wars that have broken out more or less openly, revealing an almost permanent demonstration of exclusion and of economic and social inequalities in the low - income districts of towns, both large and small, in every continent.

This fast - forward moment in human history (a k a «the great acceleration «-RRB- is characterized by a mix of clarity on long - term trends (greenhouse gases and warming; plunging poverty and rising income inequality; declining deaths in conflict...) and short - term turbulence and unpredictability, with impacts amplified by global interconnectedness.

Things like global warming, and income inequality are not going to wait for us to get our shit together, they are ticking time bombs and will go off if we don't do something, and do something fast.

[R] ising inequality within each country increases global inequality, but high rates of real income growth in poor countries, and especially in gigantic countries like China and India, reduce global inequality.