Die gefühlte Ungerechtigkeit im Land nimmt dramatisch zu. Verstärkt wird der Unmut der breiten Bevölkerung noch durch die aktuelle Finanzkrise. Doch der Wunsch nach Gleichheit im Zeitlater der Individualisierung ist nicht nur illusorisch. Er ist auch gefährlich, denn unsere Demokratie muss...

There are significant income and nonincome development gaps around the world. Closing these gaps will require not only increasing and sustaining economic growth in low-income regions, but also policies that close nonincome development gaps directly. Governments need to support private investment...

Introduction -- Capitalism on the brink -- The dangerous inequality -- The outcome of inequality -- The perfect storm -- Shareholder value gets lean and mean -- The way forward -- Stakeholder value is already working -- The time to act is now -- Postscript

Poverty reduction is entirely determined by the growth rate of population’s mean per capita income1 and by the change in the distribution of income. This places the empirical relation between growth and inequality at the heart of poverty reducing strategies. This study, which estimates the...

"Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in...

This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...