The causes of prostitution mainly lie in financial and gender inequality which the criminal networks exploit in their interests.

Democratic Inequality

Ebola and Inequality

The Inequality Trifecta

When Inequality Kills

An Inequality Tax

Inequality and Discontent

The Inequality Trap

Populist anger is one of the most predictable, and certainly inevitable, consequences of today s financial and economic crisis. The unifying factor behind this rising anger is rejection of both real and perceived inequality inequality in both treatment and economic conditions.

Good and Bad Inequality

Inequality, Immigration, and Hypocrisy

Inequality and the Internet

Inequality on the March

Is Inequality Inhibiting Growth?

The Heirs of Inequality

The Instability of Inequality

Inequality is Killing Capitalism

The Price of Inequality

Inequality and the American Child

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New Light on Income Inequality

How Inequality Fueled the Crisis

(a) Globalization, inequality and poverty.

Inequality on the Horizon of Need

And again, closely related to inequality.

How the Fed Just Reduced Inequality

Yet never has inequality been greater.

Inequality and oppression remain a reality.

Poverty and inequality continue to grow unchecked in many countries, and inequality grows, in particular, between countries and between regions.

One negative consequence is the persistent deepening of income inequality. The Gini coefficient of per capita income has surpassed 50 (with 100 representing maximal inequality), putting China in the upper quartile of inequality worldwide.

Richard Wilkinson How economic inequality harms societies

The Rising Costs of US Income Inequality

Statistical indicators are useful for measuring inequality.

Recent trends in inequality were not encouraging.

But greater wealth for the rich does not necessarily produce much extra spending. It does increase inequality and threaten asset bubbles, which could lead to a new financial crash.

The global economy is at a critical juncture. Most economists agree on what is needed to avoid another round of lost growth opportunities, inadequate employment, financial instability, and worsening inequality.

Inequality in remuneration for work of equal value

Violence and conflict were often rooted in inequality, authoritarian regimes, poverty and exclusion, while inequality was a contributing factor in social disintegration and violence.

Globalization, inequality and the labour markets. Mimeo, UNCTAD, Geneva.

Inequality was also reflected in the global unemployment situation.

These developments seem to add to global inequality. So, on balance, it seems that global inequality has been relatively stable during the last two decades.

The global financial crisis occurred because we ignored externalities shadow prices and institutions allowing instability and inequality to proliferate. Building a more stable, sustainable future requires getting policies, prices, and incentives right.

But income inequality was worsening steadily in all member countries, with more highly educated citizens benefiting from the booming services industry, while the less educated suffered as manufacturing moved to cheaper locations. Then, the global financial crisis struck, income inequality rose sharply, and the post Wall generation in southern Europe suffered the largest drop in living standards since WWII.

Now, however, with inequality on the rise once more, arguments linking income concentration to macroeconomic problems have returned. The University of Chicago s Raghuram Rajan, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, tells a plausible story in his recent award winning book Fault Lines about the connection between income inequality and the financial crisis of 2008.