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VIDEO: Economic inequality 'problem' in SA
2013-12-16 12:24:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Nelson Mandela's former finance minister Trevor Manuel tells the BBC that economic inequality is still a "big problem" in South Africa - especially among the black population.
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VIDEO: Is wealth inequality slowing growth?
2013-11-21 22:29:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
BBC Chief Business Correspondent Linda Yueh investigates claims that inequality is hampering growth.
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Top500 shows growing inequality in supercomputing power
2013-11-21 14:01:05| InfoWorld: Top News
Supercomputing power is being concentrated in a smaller number of machines, according to the latest Top500 list of high-performance computers. Keepers of the list are uncertain how to parse that trend.
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The Inequality of Climate Change
2013-11-13 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Typhoon Haiyan has left an estimated 10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless in the Philippines. And it has once again underscored for many development experts a cruel truth about climate change: It will hit the worlds poorest the hardest. No nation will be immune to the impacts of climate change, said a major World Bank report on the issue last year. However, the distribution of impacts is likely to be inherently unequal and tilted against many of the worlds poorest regions, which have...
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America's growing inequality helped scuttle the global climate change initiative
2013-10-28 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The link between good economic policy and climate change mitigation is instigated by policies such as the triple-bottom line, carbon limitations, and pro-environmental legislation. However, economic inequality is a little explored piece of the successful fight against climate change. For climate change mitigation and good economic policy to work, economic growth must be broad-based. Indeed, the inability for the United States to make a coherent and progressive stance on climate change has effectively...
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