Sentences with phrase «global inequality»

How to address global inequality more directly is one of globalization's most pressing challenges.

So, while global inequality may be increasing less or may even be on the decline in places, inequality within countries is a huge problem that is not being tackled.

As well as reducing the burden of ill - health, they make for more resilient communities, help alleviate poverty and address global inequality.

Byanyima blamed «tax dodging» as a major cause of global inequality and urged leaders to clamp down on tax havens and plough money into education, healthcare and jobs for young people.

Yet deciding what it means to act justly in particular situations (whether it's a case of affirmative action or the huge global inequalities in living standards) is highly controversial.

Cook called for «well - crafted» regulations that prevent the information of users being put together and applied in new ways without their knowledge during a session on global inequality at the annual China Development Forum in Beijing on Saturday.

Oxfam said that women workers were worst hit by global inequality as they consistently earn less than men and usually have lower paid and more insecure forms of work.

The fact it has been taken up across other media suggests a desire to make people forget about your latest report into global inequality and the fact that poor people aren't poor by accident, but because of decisions taken by the rulers and principalities of this world.

In line with the results of other studies, we find an enormous global inequality where 20 of the 36 highest emitting countries are among the least vulnerable to negative impacts of future climate change.

But human organ trafficking will continue to be a serious, global problem as long as global inequality remains unchanged, desperate people of affluence and those just as desperate financially tight — tight regulations or not — believe there are huge profits to be had.

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... The climate issue long ago ceased to be a purely technical matter and has instead become an encompassing story that explains global inequality, poverty, natural disasters, war, migration, and even the problems with capitalism.

Any global climate treaty must, however, at least not make global inequality worse, and ideally should embody desirable principles of justice.

The Atlantic — Confirmed: The Internet Does Not Solve Global Inequality — Alexis Madrigal — Not only does the internet blink at you, but it does so more if you live in a rich country.

While the financial - services industry should certainly not be held accountable for every aspect of global inequality, it is still a moment for introspection.

Just this week, the actor was added to the lineup of the Global Citizen Festival in New York, an annual gathering on climate change and global inequality in the city's Central Park.

The data on global inequality are even bleaker.

Those beacons are energy (including nuclear), advanced materials, industrial biotechnology, cancer, and addressing global inequalities.

This altruistic motivation is of a fundamental importance in the world of teachers, since it gives you an essential perspective to exercise their profession just like the education requires in the service of progress without distinction, but as well directed towards an intercultural humanity, which seeks to eliminate the existing, and global inequalities where the actions of each region influence the rest of the world.

Global inequality is getting worse.

But a recent book by international economist Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, has helped me grasp some of the underlying forces that are driving the leaders away from the led.

He shows why Christians should be indignant about increasing domestic and global inequalities, and his arguments are both distinctively Christian and accessible to non-Christians.

In his first months as Labour leader, Corbyn amassed a team of some of the world's greatest economists: from the most pronounced voices on global inequality to Nobel Prize winners.

«Global inequality, with its roots in the histories of imperialism and colonialism, has affected the ability of Caribbean societies to deal with the challenges of climate change.

In April, I continued my conversations with thought leaders around the world on many topics including the role of standardized testing, global inequality, creativity, and innovation in our world today.

And we need leaders to deal seriously and honestly with the crux of these talks — global inequality and historical responsibility — and to make progress on a fair, just, equitable and transformative global partnership to combat the ever escalating climate crisis.»

Her advice to newcomers who want to make a difference to global inequality is to «listen very hard and learn a great deal.»

This lunchtime shopping list price comparison between the UK and Uganda (or Kenya) can be used to introduce pupils to the global inequalities in access to food.

«As young adults we shouldn't be sheltered from what's going on globally, if we're to do anything to address global inequalities, it's really important that we understand the causes.»

Although challenging, his ideas about freedom and global inequality are fresh and revealing and will prove crucial as the pace of change accelerates in a new century.

In the photo - book, 0,01, Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality, a collection of their works is presented for the purpose of lending visual evidence to the blatant discrepancy between people's living conditions, which can be as fascinating as it is shocking.

This, they say, points to the profound scale of global inequality, which means that the benefits of the so - called Great Acceleration in consumption of resources are unevenly distributed, and this in turn confounds efforts to deal with the impact of this assault on the planetary machinery.

The report also notes that sovereigns will probably be unevenly affected by climate change, with poorer and lower rated sovereigns typically hit hardest - broadening the global inequality gap between low - and high - income nations.

As inequality scholar Branko Milanovic politely noted in The Haves and the Have - Nots, his excellent 2011 book on global inequality, the super rich don't actually like to be studied.)

Well the very same Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), together with Lucas Chancel (IDDRI, Paris School of Economics) has just published a paper called Trends in the global inequality of carbon emissions (1998 - 2013) & prospects for an equitable adaptation fund.

His research shows that, mostly because of Asia's incredible growth, global inequality has declined sharply for several decades, reducing so much that the world hasn't been this equal for more than a century...

[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.

Lead Economist of the IMF and author of an acclaimed book on inequality (The Haves and the Have - Nots: a Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality), Branko Milanovic, provides a helpful overview of how economists see the notion of inequality (Finance & Development September 2011, Vol 48, No. 3:).