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Confronting Rising Inequality in Asia


Inequality looms beneath the shiny facade of Southeast Asia's growth

Income inequality in Southeast Asia remain stubbornly high, despite strong regional growth ... Thai rubber farmers confront anti-riot police ...

Income and Wealth Inequality in Asia and the Pacific

... Asia; China; income inequality; wealth inequality; causes of rising inequality ... Asian Development Outlook 2012: Confronting Rising Inequality.

Addressing Inequality in South Asia - World Bank Document

Monetary inequality is increasing across most of South Asia. ... ever, is confronted by the ongoing disagree- ment about how best to measure it. BOX 1.2 ...

Inequality and social security in the Asia-Pacific region

Coping with rising inequality in Asia: how effective are fiscal policies? Asian Economic Papers, 12(3), 1-33. Credit Suisse (2021). Global wealth report ...

Confronting East Asia's Growing Income Inequality - Eurasia Review

Over the last half-century, East Asia's dramatic economic growth has fundamentally altered global economic and political landscapes, ...

Income and Wealth Inequality in Asia and the Pacific: Trends ...

The Asia–Pacific region's rapid growth and poverty reduction in recent decades have been accompanied by rising income and wealth inequality.

Confronting rising inequality in Asia and the Pacific - YouTube

Manila, 21 June 2013 - Video by http://www.gdnet.org/ In this video, Arsenio M. Balisacan (State Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning and ...

10 Poverty and Inequality - Oxford Academic

For Asia, the inequality effect is mostly poverty-increasing, echoing the general trend of rising inequality. Meanwhile, the growth effects are negative in most ...

How Inequality Is Undermining China's Prosperity - CSIS

Chinese policymakers are confronting a visibly faltering economy that may no longer grow at the rate needed to achieve the country's ...

Japan confronts rising inequality after Abenomics | Reuters

Japan's stock market has surged and luxury cars are selling fast in Tokyo after eight years of economic stimulus under Abenomics, ...

An age of rising inequality? No, but yes - CEPR

The Asian Development Bank (2012) in its flagship report highlighted the fact that over 80% of developing Asia's population lived in countries ...

Addressing Inequality in East Asia through Regional Economic ...

Asian Development Bank (2012): “Confronting rising inequality in Asia.” Part 2 of Asian. Development Outlook 2012: Confronting Rising Inequality in Asia.

Urbanization and Inequality in Asia - ProQuest

As highlighted in ADB (2012a), more than 80% of Asia's population now lives in countries where inequality has risen in the last 20 years. Second, rural-urban ...

Japan Confronts Rising Inequality - VOA Learning English

New Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said dealing with that issue is important. Kishida has promised to deal with income inequality which the ...

Poverty is rising and inequality widening in Asia and the Pacific, new ...

The number of people in vulnerable situations in the region is expected to rise, as negative shocks continue to hit amid prevailing inequalities ...

Have economic growth and institutional quality contributed to ...

Recent evidence revealed that growth in Asia has been accompanied by an increase in relative poverty, or income inequality. High income inequality can slow the ...

How can Emerging Asia escape a post-COVID inequality trap?

The uneven impact of the global health crisis on Emerging Asia has challenged real disposable incomes and hit the region's poorest the hardest.

ACTION NOT WORDS - UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Confronting Gender Inequality through Climate Change Action and Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia. An overview of progress in Asia with evidence ...

Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries

Understanding the causes of rising inequality is of concern in many countries. Using administrative data, we find that the share of inequality that is ...

Section Four – Introduction Childhood and Youth in Southeast Asia

... Asia: Confronting Diversity and Social Change ... Economic development and social inequality: Most SEA countries have succeeded in economic ...