This report examines the links between inequality and other major global trends (or megatrends), with a focus on technological change, climate change, urbanization and international migration.
Gross domestic capital formation is an index of the level of the investment in the economy. From this point of view, it can be stated ... on living standard of unemployed population. Misery Index = Unemployment rate + Inflation rate ...
This critically important book paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline, and provides solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.
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The Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a special focus on emerging market and developing economies, on a semiannual basis (in January and June).
They cannot explain the process that matters most – the accumulation of capital. This book offers a radical alternative. According to the authors, capital is not a narrow economic entity, but a symbolic quantification of power.
Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to telling the truth to the American people.
What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up.