THE REBEL: Calling for second American Revolution Nov 21, 2009
To all readers, this sort of distribution of income and net worth is not just unfair; it is unsustainable. Judson: We may believe that the United States is immune to political instability and revolution, but if so, the United States is breaking all the rules of history. (Hingham Journal, MA)
France - GDP stays, happiness too hard to pin down Nov 18, 2009
Insee is producing new statistics following recommendations that say more prominence should be given to the distribution of income and wealth, as well as to access to education and health, but it doesn't plan a rival series to GDP.. Cotis said he is working with statisticians at the European agency Eurostat and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-based club of rich countries, to share the heavy costs of measuring additional elements. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
African Economic Conference Considers Prospects for Re-Launching Africa's Development Nov 12, 2009
These include unequal distribution of income and high levels of poverty, weak governance, lack of diversification, ineffective use of natural resources and climate change. "We need to identify policy options that will help Africa face up to the challenges in partnership with academia, policy makers and development practitioners. We need to design interventions appropriate to country circumstances.". (allAfrica.com)
Oil And Ghanas Future Lessons to learn Oct 26, 2009
Some of the many important objectives of policy may be full employment, stable prices, increase in national productivity, and greater equity in distribution of income. These diverse and equally important objectives are related to one another by a complicated system of trade-offs, in that the advancement of one may lead to the sacrificing progress towards others. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
One indication of heightened materialism is the rapt attention we pay to GDP growth. Sep 26, 2009
Next, more attention needs to be paid to changes in the distribution of income, consumption and wealth. That's because changes in the averages of each of those things can be misleading. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
What Braley should say at town halls Sep 11, 2009
"?Anyway, there are all kinds of information available. First, on how they impacted the deficit and how bad they would be if made permanent:http://www.urban.org/decisionpoints08/archive/01bushtaxcuts.cfmBut if you want a full dissertation on how skewed the tax cuts were and how disparate the distribution of income is in America compared to other modern nations, you need to go no further than here:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12699486/paul_krugman_on_the_great_wealth_transfer/1Oh... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Stockholders Approve the Acquisition of Assets of ACM Managed Dollar Income Fund, Inc. by AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund, Inc. Aug 22, 2009
There may be a final distribution of income and/or capital gains for ACM Managed Dollar and/or AllianceBernstein Global High Income made prior to the Acquisition. ACM Managed Dollar and AllianceBernstein Global High Income are diversified, closed-end U.S.-registered management investment companies. (PR Newswire)
Honduran business elite still in charge Aug 7, 2009
Elites across Latin America are watching the standoff closely, as they plot their own strategies to combat democratically elected presidents such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez who have demonized the wealthy as they push for a more even distribution of income. Washington has shunned the interim government so as not to legitimize it, while lobbying Honduras' business leaders in an effort to resolve the crisis. (MSNBC -- International)
In Sickness and in Wealth Jul 29, 2009
Between 1947 and 1967, this was a somewhat accurate image, as the distribution of income made the population look more and more like a bell curve with each passing year. Yet since 1967, this story has reversed course. (Slate)
The looming food crisis? How much is reality? (108) Jul 21, 2009
The level and distribution of income, lack of access to education and health-care, and political malfeasance not the world's ability to produce food go a long way in explaining the systemic undernourishment of much of world's population. (Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy, Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, and is the Director of UT's Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC). (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Budget impact: Equities, Bonds & Real Estate Jul 13, 2009
Priorities have been re-affirmed for agriculture, rural infrastructure, SMEs and labour-intensive export-oriented industries and social sector expenditure like NREGA. Such contra-cyclical small-ticket targeted government expenditure attempts to address the issue of a equitable distribution of income and balanced growth. So how exactly would the budget impact various asset classes. (India Times)
How much do you need to live a life of leisure? How about $3.1 million, minimum Jul 1, 2009
One set is a time series that shows how the distribution of income (and taxes) has changed over time. It tells us that if you wanted to be in the top 25 percent of all households in America by income, you needed to have an income of $64,702 in 2006. (Boston Globe)
Up close with marketing guru Dr Philip Kotler Jun 6, 2009
As an economist, I am returning to my early interest in the distribution of income and the conditions that create poverty, he says. Poverty is a disgraceful condition of human society and I want to apply ideas on how to help more people migrate out of that, he adds. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race May 27, 2009
And its contributors investigate various aspects of labor economics, including supply and demand of labor services, personnel economics, distribution of income, unions and collective bargaining, applied and policy issues in labor economics, and labor markets and demographics. . (EurekAlert!)
Reasons to back tax reform May 25, 2009
But that's different from attempting to deduce and engineer some optimal distribution of income. Government can't do that and shouldn't try. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Mongolians vote for new president May 24, 2009
One of the main election issues has been the distribution of income from Mongolia's vast mineral resources. Last year, five people died and hundreds were hurt in protests over alleged fraud in the general elections. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Two Views on the Cause of the Global Crisis Part I May 13, 2009
They lie in the real sector, and more exactly in the distribution of income across individuals and social classes. Deregulation, by helping irresponsible behavior, just exacerbated the crisis; it did not create it. (YaleGlobal Online Magazine, CT)
Ridley Inc. Reports Financial Results for Fiscal 2009 Third Quarter May 12, 2009
Ridley's effective income tax rate is impacted by the geographic distribution of income between Canada and the United States ... The Company's income tax expense is also impacted by the geographic distribution of income and losses. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Odessans set sights to south May 10, 2009
It's the second-poorest nation in Central America, is 97 percent Roman Catholic and "has an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income and high unemployment," according to the CIA World Factbook. It's called Honduras, a little nation of about 8 million people between Guatemala and Nicaragua, and it's a place where a couple of Odessa missionaries may soon call home. (Odessa American, TX)
UR Economics Professor Honored May 5, 2009
He is recognized for developing trade models that describe wage rates and distribution of income. ay/hg/cdo. (R News)
1960s organ earworm makes its way into House of Lords Apr 29, 2009
A lower court, however, froze distribution of income from licensed performances when Fisher lodged his claim in 2005. He is not claiming royalties from before that. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Obama didn’t cause crisis Apr 20, 2009
This issue comes into play, it seems to me, only when one is making comparisons OVER TIME of the distribution of income (or tax burdens) for a GIVEN taxing jurisdiction, eg, USA between year T and year T+X. If one is making cross sectional comparisons among different jurisdictions - towns, states, regions, countries - at a GIVEN POINT IN TIME, then the mobility issue, of course, doesn't arise. Going back to the over-time comparison of tax burden incidence in a given jurisdiction, one might ask... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Secret lives of statistics Apr 18, 2009
The Gini coefficient, a statistic that measures the distribution of income, changes sedately even over long periods. Even so, it is doubtful that violent demonstrators check out first the state of statistics, e.g. what has been the level of the CPI or the Gini coefficient, before going down to the streets. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
China sets executive pay limits for state-owned financial institutions Apr 10, 2009
It is necessary to put a cap on executive salaries to prevent unfair distribution of income and a larger gap between the rich and poor, he said. In March, the government ordered a crackdown on government "hospitality" budgets, including a 15-per-cent cut in car-buying and fuel funds as well as an across-the-board halt to the building of any new office compounds before the end of 2010. (Xinhuanet, China)
China bosses told to cut salaries Apr 10, 2009
It said pay cuts were needed to "further equalise distribution of income". Most of China's major banks, insurers, stock brokerages and other financial institutions are government-owned. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Liberals Worried About Obama’s Economic Competence Mar 26, 2009
Liberals Worried About Obama s Economic Competence - HUMAN EVENTS. Liberals Worried About Obama s Economic Competence by 03/26/2009. (Human Events Online)
Millionaires' audit chances fell 36% last year Mar 23, 2009
Source: Andrew Johns, Joel Slemrod, The Distribution of Income Tax Noncompliance. By Sandra Block, USA TODAY IRS audits of taxpayers with income of $1 million or more declined by more than a third last year, despite the agency's claims that it stepped up scrutiny of wealthy taxpayers, a new study says. (USA Today -- Money)
How Dangerous Is This Man? Feb 21, 2009
Promoting good governance, working to eliminate poverty and seeking to reduce the hugely unequal distribution of income in the region would put the United States on the right side of the argument. Ultimately, the way to defeat Chvez is to outcompete him by offering better ideas and better policies. (Washington Post)
Special report: Burgeoning bourgeoisie Feb 13, 2009
The lop-sided bell shape represents the distribution of income in a country (in this case, China) with a tail of poor people on the left, a longer tail of rich ones on the right and a bulge of people on average incomes in the middle. As the economy grows, the bell moves to the right and as it meets the threshold, a great whoosh of people cross into the middle class. (The Economist)
Full text of Budget 2009 speech Feb 12, 2009
Financial systems cannot go unregulated, trade arrangements cannot be subordinate to short-sighted protectionist influence, the distribution of income cannot be entrusted to the merciless counterpoise of executive greed and unsupervised labour market dynamics. In Polanyi's words, our task is to harness the instrumentality of both power and planning in pursuit of more abundant freedoms. (Business Report, South Africa)
