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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">GLOBAL INEQUALITY CONTINUES TO GROW - REPORT</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:#004579; letter-spacing:-.75pt">Global Inequality Continues To Grow: UNDESA Report</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333">Tribal women converge at the Boipariguda weekly market in Koraput District, in India’s Odisha state, to sell and buy farm produce. Indigenous communities remain at the centre of those
affected by climate change, he said, disproportionately bearing the brunt of the crisis and facing higher risks. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#444444; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">UNITED NATIONS, Jan 23 2020 (IPS)<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">- </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">More
than 70 percent of the global population is currently living in parts of the world where income inequality has grown, according to a <a href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/world-social-report/2020-2.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#6D90A8; text-decoration:none">World
Social Report 2020</span></a> launched by <a href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#6D90A8; text-decoration:none">United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">The report, which was launched at the U.N. on Tuesday, identified four “megatrends” that impacts this inequality: technological innovation,
climate change, urbanisation and international migration. “The report underscores that these mega trends can be harnessed for a more equitable and sustainable world or they can be left alone to divide us further,” Elliott Harris, U.N. Chief Economist and Assistant
Secretary-General for Economic Development at DESA, said at the launch. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">He added that the current climate crisis especially causes the slowdown in reducing inequality between countries and further “presents major
obstacle to reduce poverty”.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Indigenous communities remain at the centre of those affected by climate change, he said, disproportionately bearing the brunt of the crisis
and facing higher risks. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">“And it’s affecting intergenerational inequality as well,” he said. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">Technological innovation, digital division</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">With regards to technology, Harris said technological innovations are “pushing wage inequality upwards”. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">“Despite its immense promise, technological change creates winners and losers and its rapid pace brings additional new challenges,” he said. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">But the “<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2018/09/women-not-speaking-table-men-means-widening-digital-gender-gap-africa/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#6D90A8; text-decoration:none">digital
divide</span></a>” exists through access to technology and technological devices (or lack thereof). According to the report, almost 90 percent of the population of most developed countries have access to the Internet, while only 19 percent of the population
in least developed countries have the same access. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">According to the U.N. Committee for Development Policy (CDP) data from 2018, the </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"><a href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/publication/ldc_list.pdf" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#6D90A8; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; text-decoration:none">list
of least developed countries</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in"> includes many countries in Africa — a continent being lauded for its </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"><a href="https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/technology/publications/disrupting-africa--riding-the-wave-of-the-digital-revolution.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#6D90A8; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; text-decoration:none">massive
technological growth</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">As <a href="https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/technology/publications/disrupting-africa--riding-the-wave-of-the-digital-revolution.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#6D90A8; text-decoration:none">a
PwC report on Africa states</span></a>, “disruptive innovation is transforming Africa’s economic potential, creating new target markets and unprecedented consumer choice”. It then begs the question how technological divide is perpetuating inequality in these
countries. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">When asked, Harris acknowledged this growth but added those countries that are lagging behind have a lot of “catching up” to do.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">“The fact remains that because of the rapid advancement of technological innovation, the time that its taking to establish a digital infrastructure
is time at which the advanced countries continue to move ahead at increasingly rapid pace,” he told IPS. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">“The cycles of tech innovation are getting shorter and shorter,” he said, adding a hypothetical analysis that by the time a developing country
has set up 5G, a developed country is already establishing 8G.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">“And we need to make a really concerted effort to catch up really quickly,” he said, “we need a big jump; we can’t go progressively at the
speed at which we did it in the past.” </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">A vicious cycle?</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Another notable observation made in the report was how those who are poor and remain without access to education or healthcare remain at the
core of the struggle.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">“Disparities in health and education make it challenging for people to break out of the cycle of poverty, leading to the transmission of disadvantage
from one generation to the next,” read a part of the report.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">This is especially concerning at a time when the world has a massive refugee population that only continues to grow, whether due to climate
change or conflict. The U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) states the current refugee crisis is “unprecedented” with a total of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333"><a href="https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#6D90A8; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; text-decoration:none">70.8
million people forcibly displaced. </span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">For communities that remain in transit, it poses a challenge to establish access to health and education, which can thus hinder the process
of breaking out the poverty cycle, thus perpetuating the gap between the poor and the rich. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">When asked, Harris said this vicious cycle is “a very serious concern that we have.” </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">“The problem, of course, is [in] many cases the refugees are concentrated in places that do not have large amount of additional resources they
can devote to support refugees and so they are very dependent on the support of the international community,” he told IPS. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">“It’s been relatively less difficult to mobilise support at the onset of the crisis when people have to flee,” he said, adding that maintaining
that support when in some cases they’re in refugee camps or displaced from their homelands for years at a time” is what becomes challenging. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"inherit",serif; color:#333333; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">He lauded the efforts by host countries for doing their best in hosting the refugees, and added that the international community has a responsibility
to “step up and help these host countries.” </span></p>
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