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Brookings Global (@BrookingsGlobal) July 29, 2015There are some people who are just never happy. Complaining at the doors to heaven.
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World Bank Data (@worldbankdata) July 16, 2015"Today, children in sub-Saharan Africa are more likely…"—Prof. Angus Deaton, @Princeton
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HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) July 12, 2015
Worsening inequality is a key challenge of our time. Evidence from Oxfam illustrates that next year, if current trends continue, the richest 1% of humanity will own half of global wealth. Our own computations show that over the MDG period (1990-2015), nearly 4 people in 5 lived in countries where the bottom 40% of the income distribution grew more slowly than the average.
We should be concerned about inequality for many reasons – just one of them is that it is intimately linked to levels of absolute deprivation. Growth can reduce poverty even if offset by rising inequality but it makes the challenge much harder. In light of the global call of the SDGs to ‘leave no one behind’ and the proposed target that the incomes of the bottom 40% within countries should exceed national averages, it becomes pertinent to think about what the poverty reducing effect might be.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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