Income inequality has been rising in many countries over the past decades.
收入不平等在过去几十年中在许多国家有所增加。
Gender inequality persists in many aspects of professional life.
性别不平等在职业生活的许多方面仍然存在。
Education is seen as a key to reducing social inequality.
教育被视为减少社会不平等的关键。
The wealth gap between the rich and poor has widened significantly.
富人和穷人之间的财富差距显著扩大。
Inequality can lead to social unrest and political instability.
不平等可能导致社会动荡和政治不稳定。
Access to healthcare is a basic human right, not a privilege determined by income inequality.
接受医疗保健是基本人权，不应由收入不平等来决定。
Environmental inequality affects low-income communities disproportionately.
环境不平等对低收入社区的影响不成比例。
Tax policies are often used to address income inequality.
税收政策常被用来解决收入不平等问题。
Globalization has contributed to both economic growth and inequality.
全球化既促进了经济增长，也加剧了不平等。
Efforts must be made to ensure equal opportunities for all, regardless of their background.
必须努力确保所有人，无论背景如何，都有平等的机会。
"Today, Thailand continues to face digital inequality between urban and rural communities.
“今天，泰国继续面临城市和农村社区之间的数字不平等。
We firmly believe that building a society on common prosperity, properly tackling inequality, and ensuring a high-quality development of society and the economy is doing good not only for China but also for the world.
我们坚信，建设共同富裕社会，妥善解决不平等问题，确保社会和经济高质量发展，不仅对中国有利，也对世界有利。
The council is designed to be a place where experts are encouraged to share and address key issues within educational practices, bridge the gap between research and practice, and inspire relevant stakeholders to contribute to the transformation of education such as closing the inequality gap.
这个委员会旨在成为一个鼓励专家分享和解决教育实践中的关键问题的平台，架起研究与实践之间的桥梁，并激发相关利益方为教育改革做出贡献，例如缩小不平等差距。
We realized at an early stage that the purpose of online education is to address the inequality in education.
One of his most recent endeavors was at the 2017 Global Sustainable Development Innovation Conference in Germany where he spoke about how his company is helping address issues on gender inequality and global sustainable development.
The biggest challenges China faces today are: Balancing continued growth with a shift from investment to consumption, SOE reform and social inequality.
The country will also continue to modernize its financial system, mitigating the risks of asset inflation and income inequality even as it provides needed capital to a much broader set of enterprises.
Stronger productivity growth will also help China to address many of its other challenges as its economy matures, including an aging population, and growing income inequality in urban and rural areas.
In addition, she encouraged policymakers to build confidence, invest in developing digital and green economies, and address global wealth inequality.
This is especially true for a country as populous and expansive as China, because general prosperity can mask regional imbalances and urban-rural inequality, they said.
But he noted that more work needs to be done in a number of areas, especially in addressing rural-urban inequality.
The UN coordinator added that the country's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), which laid more emphasis on bridging urban-rural inequalities, creates an opportunity for China and the UN to work together on that front.
All countries should work together to raise development standards, improve sustainability and reduce wealth inequality to create a more stable and prosperous environment, he said.
Encompassing everything from health to gender equality and education, the goals are mobilizing efforts around the world to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change by 2030, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
Teixeira, who is also a professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, noted the increasing inequality gaps between the rich and poor and people at risk of hunger and poverty around the globe, saying the governance model in terms of economic development is not working.
This will worsen poverty and inequality and cause more difficulties for the international community to achieve the sustainable development goals of the United Nations.
As UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned: "Our world is in big trouble, divides are growing deeper, inequalities are growing wider and challenges are spreading farther.
Guterres called the GDI a plan of great importance in advancing the realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and addressing the inequality and imbalance in global development.
GAO: Reduction of inequality is among the 17 sustainable development goals of the UN for 2030.
The report noted that structural reforms to encourage a shift towards consumption, address social inequality and rekindle innovation and productivity growth – including in technologies vital for China's dual carbon goals – would help achieve a more balanced, inclusive and sustainable growth trajectory for China.
The pandemic, combined with climate change, widening inequalities, increasing conflicts and skyrocketing prices have pushed the world further away from reaching the SDG goals.
China's Gini coefficient, an index reflecting inequality where zero equals perfect equality, declined to 0.466 in 2021 from 0.474 in 2012.
Now with global inequality on the rise and COVID-19 exposing social ruptures, the same principle is being increasingly prioritized in China's growbalization drive.
The report also noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has raised global income inequality, partly reversing the decline that was achieved over the previous two decades.
Preliminary evidence suggests that the pandemic has also caused within-country income inequality to rise somewhat in EMDEs because of particularly severe job and income losses among lower-income population groups, according to the report.
Noting that rising inequality and security challenges are "particularly harmful" for developing countries, Malpass said putting more countries on a favorable growth path requires concerted international action and a comprehensive set of national policy responses.
As an indicator measuring income inequality among individuals, the Gini coefficient is based on the comparison of cumulative proportions of the population against cumulative proportions of income they receive.
It ranges between 0 in the case of perfect equality and 1 in the case of extreme inequality, said the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
If we look at China's inequality in terms of assets, we'll find that the proportion of assets of the country's high-asset group－10 percent of the total population－in total assets of Chinese residents increased from 40 percent in 1978 to more than 60 percent in 2015.
Thirteen indicators are applied to evaluate a city's potential for long-term success, such as healthcare, inequality, ease of doing business, infrastructure development, and investment.
He noted that the spike in unemployment, poverty and inequality caused by the pandemic "will not go away anytime" soon.
Similarly, iconic internet companies' fat profits suddenly seemed to exact a heavy price in the form of potential data privacy infringements, which intensified a sense of income inequality.
Basic economics shows that lower-income groups have higher marginal propensity to consume, which means they are more willing to spend when their income rises than higher-income groups, highlighting the need for reducing income inequality.
A more progressive tax system, investments in human capital and stronger social safety nets to reduce income inequality should be major areas of China's economic reforms which could help achieve high-quality growth, said economists from the World Bank.
"While there are welcome signs of global recovery, the pandemic continues to inflict poverty and inequality on people in developing countries around the world," said World Bank Group President David Malpass.
As to policy priorities for governments, the global lender said foremost is overcoming the immediate health crisis and returning employment to normal levels and then limiting the long-term impact of the crisis by limiting scarring, including from zombie firms, and reducing inequality — both within and across countries.
However, at the same time, as global governance lags behind global practice, multinational corporations have not given back enough to regional and national development, and globalization has exacerbated inequalities among and within countries.
Over the past three decades, global poverty alleviation has lagged far behind the pace of globalization, and rising inequality has been the main cause of the recent wave of counter-globalization.
The sharp rise in monopolistic profits has been a big factor in the rise of inequality and in the huge transfer of wealth from workers to capital owners over the past decades in the United States.
The sharp drop in innovation that Phelps found in the US and Europe was clearly associated with income inequality and no wage increases for working people.
Beijing's proposals for China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) and development goals for 2035 have mapped out a clear path to a high-quality growth model, while also recognizing key challenges facing the economy resulting from the technological revolution, rising geopolitical uncertainties affecting its adoption of foreign technology, income inequality and pollution, and highlighting the importance of enhancing productivity and self-sufficiency, according to economists.
It is natural in a period of rapid growth and economic transformation that some people can get rich quicker than others, so China has seen the creation of high levels of wealth and income inequality.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said in a statement low- and middle-income countries bear 90 percent of the global burden of infectious diseases, but only 10 percent of global spending on drug research and development goes toward diseases that disproportionately affect these populations, underscoring a clear case of global health inequality.
Over the past decade, a lot of research has been done on issues like income disparity caused by financial inequality in the West, and topics including how to ensure financial inclusion, improve people's livelihoods and reduce income gaps are now high on the public agenda, said Chen.
Kotex has been committed to further eliminate the prejudice of "menstrual shame" and end the inequality termed "period poverty", so every girl will have a healthy and beautiful adolescence, the company said.
It has created high unemployment, widened economic and wealth inequality, and substantially reduced the spending power of consumers worldwide.
它导致了高失业率，加剧了经济与财富不平等，并在全球范围内大幅削弱了消费者的购买力。
Gini coefficient is defined as a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income or wealth distribution of a nation's residents, and is the most commonly used measurement of inequality.
基尼系数是一种统计学上的离散程度衡量指标，旨在反映一个国家居民的收入或财富分配情况，是衡量不平等性的最常用指标。
As they come to terms with this new reality, learners want schools and governments to address the inequality in the learning experience, and desire digital skills they believe they will need to thrive in the new economy.
当学习者们开始接受这个新的现实时，他们希望学校和政府能够解决学习体验中的不平等问题，并希望获得他们认为在新经济中蓬勃发展的数字技能。
China has been promoting the development of e-commerce in rural areas in recent years, as it can boost household consumption, reduce inequality and bring to rural residents the convenience, variety and low prices enjoyed by urban dwellers.
The biggest disgrace of the deal is its nature of inequality.
Technology should not exacerbate inequality or reinforce bias and discrimination, but should promote inclusivity and be designed for the greater good.
For instance, unemployment caused by changes in skill requirements, abuse of private information, lagging competition policy, and increased inequality are some of the major concerns caused by technological advancement.
In an interview with Xinhua, Rousseff said investing in infrastructure development, addressing social inequality, curbing climate change and meeting sustainable development goals will be the priorities during her term of office, while emphasizing the importance of local currency for financing.
"The New Development Bank is the product of a partnership among BRICS countries with a view to creating a world with less poverty, less inequality and more sustainability," which is very different from the traditional banks dominated by developed countries, said Lula.
He noted that efforts must be made to transform the international financial architecture to serve the needs of today, so that it contributes to reducing inequalities, and restoring trust between developed countries and emerging economies.
The pandemic has magnified these and other inequalities for women by increasing their domestic duties and reducing labor mobility.
The global pandemic has already pushed over 100 million people into extreme poverty in 2020 and worsened inequality, according to the World Bank's research.
These findings seem to feed the rising concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic is widening gender inequality globally.
As we have seen in the US over the last two decades, a loose monetary policy makes income inequality worse and exacerbates social tensions.
The government should provide more targeted fiscal support to the most vulnerable in society, by taking measures such as strengthening the healthcare and social security systems, and curbing the intensification of income inequality, according to Zhang.
Georgieva, however, warned that the overall economic outlook is still uncertain even though vaccines can be expected soon, adding that growth prospects across all countries are affected by economic scarring, including from job losses and higher inequality.
By adopting digital payments, governments around the world can save up to $300 billion, which in turn can help alleviate poverty and reduce inequality.
Across all countries, growth prospects are affected by "economic scarring," including job losses and higher inequality.
Usher said investors and fund managers are underlining the significance of policies that can mitigate climate change impacts, reduce economic inequality in the post-pandemic era and improve the resilience of corporations through advanced governance.
The long-lasting pandemic will spark some social issues, such as unemployment and inequality of development, which can also affect China's economy, Liu Yuanchun, vice-president of Renmin University of China, said at a seminar.
A number of developments could, however, trigger a decline in risk assets' prices, including a deeper and longer-than-anticipated recession, a second wave of infections with ensuing containment measures, as well as geopolitical tensions or broadening social unrest in response to rising global inequality, said the updated report.
An extremely low interest rate policy also leads to asset price booms, especially in housing, exacerbating inequality by rewarding already well-off people but making life harder for poor people or for young people trying to build a life in a big city.
Combined with unending government budget deficits, loose monetary policies over the past 40 years have put the United States economy into an unsustainable period of more and more extreme booms and busts, stagnant wages, rising inequality and low productivity growth.
This drove US inequality higher because wealthier people owned most of the assets.
But history teaches that this will just lead to long-term productivity stagnation, social inequality, unproductive asset price increases, and, probably, hyperinflation.
"The 20-year macroeconomic policy of very loose monetary policy, debt-driven consumption and rising inequality driven by asset price increases was unsustainable.
"Pettis' new book, Trade Wars Are Class Wars: how rising inequality distorts the global economy and threatens international peace, which is relevant to the current US-China dispute, will be published next year.
The loan program, which is known as the Country Partnership Framework, aims to help China address its development challenges, notably the transition to more environmentally sustainable growth, the strengthening of key Chinese institutions engaged in economic and social development, and the reduction of inequality in lagging regions, according to the World Bank.
While acknowledging that multilateralism is "under strain," the EBRD president said he is still optimistic about the future of multilateralism, because progress on climate change and inequality, among other issues, "would not have been possible" if it was not for the work of the multilaterals.
Boosting the government's effort to build up infrastructure and expand financial services in underserved areas of the country will help reduce income inequality in the country, which has persisted despite sustained strong economic growth in recent years," Nakao said.
Specifically, her areas of interest include the effects of trade on inequality and firm productivity, profits and innovation, and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
Set by the United Nations in 2016, the SDGs set targets in 17 areas for sustainable development, including specific targets in poverty and inequality reduction by putting the world on a more sustainable economic, social and environmental path by 2030.
Looking ahead, the key for China is to continue implementing reforms to achieve high quality growth and also deal with income inequality, according to Massdorp.
The move by the State Council highlighted the government's intention to help disadvantaged groups and industries gain funding at affordable costs and address poverty and social inequality while carrying out structural reforms to upgrade the economy, analysts said.