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  "title": "More Inequality, Less Growth",
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      "content": "- Publication: Podcast episode titled \"More Inequality, Less Growth\".\n- Date: November 22, 2011.\n- Theme: Over the last three decades, in many parts of the world, the rich have got much richer, while just about everyone else has had very modest income growth.\n- Main claim presented by IMF economists: inequality undermines growth."
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      "content": "- Over the last three decades, the rich have got much richer, while just about everyone else has had very modest income growth.\n- Two IMF economists warn that inequality undermines growth."
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      "heading": "Participants and perspectives",
      "content": "- Speakers: Jonathan Ostry and Andrew Berg, IMF, Research Dept.\n- Role: Presented research and warnings about the relationship between inequality and economic growth."
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      "heading": "Production credits",
      "content": "- Behind the mic: Bruce Edwards, International Monetary Fund.\n  - Bruce Edwards produces the IMF podcast program and is described as an award-winning audio producer and journalist who has covered armed conflicts, social unrest, and natural disasters from all corners of the world.\n  - Stated belief: economists have an important role in solving the world's problems and the aspiration to showcase their research in every IMF podcast.\n- Additional production: Rhoda Metcalfe, independent journalist and audio producer."
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