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  "summary": "The big picture on wealth, income, ecological, and gender inequality looks bad.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Title: Global Inequalities\n- Author: ANDREW STANLEY\n- Publication: F&D Magazine\n- Date: March 2022\n- Read time indicator: Less than a minute(0 words) Read\n- Note: Opinions expressed in articles and other materials are those of the authors; they do not necessarily reflect IMF policy."
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      "heading": "Core findings",
      "content": "- Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better.\n- Disparities today are about the same as they were in the early 20th century.\n- The pandemic continues to make things worse.\n- The World Inequality Report 2022 uses two traditional measures and two new measures to shed light on inequality."
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      "content": "- Wealth:\n  - The poorest half of the global population owns just €2,900 (in purchasing power parity) per adult.\n  - The top 10 percent owns roughly 190 times as much.\n- Income:\n  - The richest 10 percent today snap up 52 percent of all income.\n  - The poorest half get just 8.5 percent.\n- Ecological inequality:\n  - Reported through carbon dioxide emissions by income category.\n  - Disparities are present not only between nations but within countries between the most well-off and the rest.\n- Gender inequality:\n  - Measured through a breakdown of labor incomes.\n  - Over the past 30 years women’s share of income has only slightly improved."
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      "content": "- The two new measures (ecological and gender inequality) extend understanding beyond traditional wealth and income metrics.\n- Large disparities in carbon dioxide emissions exist across income categories, highlighting unequal ecological footprints.\n- Gender disparities in labor income have shown only modest gains over the past 30 years."
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      "content": "- Much can be done about inequality; it is framed as a political choice.\n- Better policy design is presented as leading inevitably to fairer development pathways.\n\nPrepared by F&D’s ANDREW STANLEY based on the World Inequality Report 2022 from the World Inequality Lab.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- تأمل معي\n  - تأمل معي (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - تأمل معي (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Inégalités mondiales\n  - Inégalités mondiales (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Inégalités mondiales (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Global Inequalities\n  - Global Inequalities (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Global Inequalities (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Ни в какие рамки\n  - Ни в какие рамки (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Ни в какие рамки (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Desigualdades mundiales ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Marzo de 2022\n  - Desigualdades mundiales ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Marzo de 2022 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Desigualdades mundiales ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Marzo de 2022 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- 全球不平等现象\n  - 全球不平等现象 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 全球不平等现象 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2022/03/global-inequalities-stanley"
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    "Published: March 1, 2022",
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    "Author: ANDREW STANLEY",
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    "Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better.",
    "Disparities today are about the same as they were in the early 20th century.",
    "The pandemic continues to make things worse.",
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    "The two new measures (ecological and gender inequality) extend understanding beyond traditional wealth and income metrics.",
    "Large disparities in carbon dioxide emissions exist across income categories, highlighting unequal ecological footprints.",
    "Gender disparities in labor income have shown only modest gains over the past 30 years.",
    "Much can be done about inequality; it is framed as a political choice.",
    "Better policy design is presented as leading inevitably to fairer development pathways.",
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    "**Ни в какие рамки**",
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