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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 285</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>INEQUALITY, HUMAN
RIGHTS AND THE IMF IN 2011.</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style>Inequality is at the root of human rights
(HR) work. Should I thus find it cynical that only in 2011 has the IMF ‘come
out of the closet’ in a big way to say that inequality is bad… for Capitalism?
The IMF’s F+D (Finance and Development) Volume 48, Number 3 of September 2011
carried feature stories under the title <b style>“All
For One: Why Inequality Throws Us Off Balance”</b>. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Here below is what I found. Although probably in some cases out of context,
I quote or paraphrase and I annotate: <span style="color:blue"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Only so much disparity is ethically and politically acceptable.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">1. For decades, ‘trickle down’ <u>was</u> the unspoken
bargain of the market system. <span style="color:#3366ff">(</span></span><span style="color:#3366ff">But it does not seem to have worked; instead, economic growth brought us
growing inequalities).</span><span style> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">2. Growing inequality breeds social resentment and
generates political instability; it also fuels populist protectionism and an
anti-globalization sentiment. </span><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255)">(Is this what worries the IMF?).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">For the full Reader, go to <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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