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[https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2018/03/bourguignon by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 3/18] | [https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2018/03/bourguignon by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 3/18] | ||
After years of quasi-neglect, economic inequality has taken center stage in the policy debate worldwide. In advanced economies, the apparent impact of globalization and technological change and the cost of counteracting these forces is raising concern. | After years of quasi-neglect, economic inequality has taken center stage in the policy debate worldwide. In advanced economies, the apparent impact of globalization and technological change and the cost of counteracting these forces is raising concern. | ||
=====Policy cocktails: Attacking the roots of persistent inequality===== | |||
[https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/policy-cocktails-attacking-roots-persistent-inequality by Matthew O. Jackson 5/21 Stanford] | |||
Patterns of inequality are a manifestation of major barriers faced by millions in finding paths from poverty to middle- or upper-class lives. They often lack not only financial capital but also a vital form of social capital: information about and access to the educational and employment opportunities necessary to break the cross-generation perpetuation of economic immobility. | |||
