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Interesting paper on inequality Conclusions: >Even on the most optimistic assumptions, and even if we sustain the rate of increase in attention to poverty see
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Interesting paper on inequality
Conclusions:
>Even on the most optimistic assumptions, and even if we sustain the rate of increase in attention to poverty
seen since the early 1990s, relying on global economic growth seems an almost certain route to ensuring
that the poor are, indeed, “always with us”: such benefits as may trickle down from global growth to the
poorest will almost inevitably be countered by the adverse effects of climate change and the costs of
adaptation.
>[improvements in growth have failed to make] the prospect of poverty eradication a realistic one, at least before the 23rd century, and, in all probability, ever