Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on Inequality

Cuesta, José; Negre, Mario

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0958-3

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“…Between 1988 and 2013, 114 the income of the world's bottom 10% is estimated to have increased by 75%, almost double the rate of increase of the top 10% (which was 36%). However, the bottom 10% only increased their per capita income by $217 (PPP) over those 25 years, while the top 10% saw an increase of $4,887 (PPP) over the same period.…”

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confidence: 99%

Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful

Pimentel¹,

Aymar²,

Lawson³

2018

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Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful

Pimentel¹,

Aymar²,

Lawson³

2018

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“…80 The World Bank has said that without redoubling their efforts to tackle inequality, world leaders will miss their goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. 81 Rising economic inequality has exacerbated other forms of inequality based on, for example, ethnicity, caste, race or geography. 82 Here, we discuss how these policies have also have made achieving women's economic empowerment, a key component of gender equality, much harder.…”

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An Economy that Works for Women: Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world

Rhodes¹,

Parvez²,

Harvey³

2017

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Clockwise from top left: Margaret Mumbua, a domestic worker in Nairobi, Kenya washes clothes (photo: Allan Gichigi/Oxfam); A woman works in a garment factory in Hanoi, Vietnam (photo: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam); A woman speaks at an event in Morocco held to encourage women's political participation (photo: Ellie Kealey/Oxfam); Flonira Mukamana works on her tree tomato plantation in Musanze District, Rwanda (photo: Aurelie Marrier d'Unienville/Oxfam). AN ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR WOMEN Achieving women's economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal worldWomen's economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality. The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care work, and women's influence and decision making power is constrained. To achieve women's economic empowerment, we need a human economy that works for women and men alike, and for everyone, not just the richest 1%. Women's economic empowerment requires the creation of decent, quality work opportunities with fair pay, and an increase in women's decision making power.2 It is vital for fulfilling women's rights, reducing poverty and achieving broader development goals. To end extreme poverty will take much more than just money. But gender inequality in the economy costs women in developing countries $9 trillion a year 3 -a sum which would not only benefit women but would unleash new spending power across communities and provide a massive boost to the economy as a whole.However, progress in making women equal to men in the economy is painfully slow, and women are still more likely than men to live in poverty. 4 Across the world, women consistently earn less than men and are concentrated in the lowest-paid and least secure forms of work. 5 Globally, the average gender pay gap is 23 percent 6 and 700 million fewer women than men are in paid work. 7 The World Economic Forum has warned that instead of improving in 2016, gender inequality in the economy reverted to where it stood in 2008. 8 At the current rate of progress, it will take 170 years for women and men to be employed at the same rates, paid the same for equal work, and have the same levels of seniority. 9 Clearly, a structural change is needed.Evidence shows that although gender equality supports economic growth, not all economic growth supports gender equality. 10 Our current economic model is

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“…This is a standard approach in several publications and statistical databases of international development institutions (see, e.g. UNDP, 2013;World Bank, 2016) and non-governmental projects (Alvaredo et al, 2017).…”

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“…On the professional ground, this debate was triggered by the broadly publicized but controversial book of Thomas Piketty (2014) and the new series of inequality statistics (e.g. UNDP, 2013;World Bank, 2016;Alvaredo et al, 2017), which pointed to an increasing income inequality within many countries.…”

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Examining interrelation between global and national income inequalities

Dąbrowski¹

2018

RUJEC

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The last decade brought increasing attention to income and wealth inequalities in advanced economies because of their increase in several countries and negative social and political implications. However, this debate is often limited to the single-country perspective, disregarding decreasing global income inequalities, i.e. inequalities between individuals in the entire world. This paper focuses mainly on the g lobal dimension of the inequality trends but also tries to update statistics on national inequality trends which, contrary to the dominant narrative, seem to go in various directions depending on a concrete country. Finally, an attempt is made to analyze the potential interrelation and trade-off between decreasing global inequalities and increasing national inequalities and the role of globalization, in its various forms, in such a trade-off.

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Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on Inequality

Cited by 237 publications

References 70 publications

Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful

Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful

An Economy that Works for Women: Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world

Examining interrelation between global and national income inequalities

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