inequality

Income inequality "cannot be an excuse for slowing the pace of structural reform" , he said.

他表示，收入不平等“不能成为放慢结构性改革速度的借口”。

The argument about "conceding" numerical inequality was due either to a misunderstanding or to demagoguery.

所谓我们“承认”了数量的不平等，这不是出于误解就是想蛊惑人心。

Inequality may also push people at the bottom of the ladder toward choices that put the financial system at risk, he said.

他说，收入不平衡或许也迫使底层的贫穷人群做出一些选择，而这些选择令金融体系处于危险之境。

It's crystal clear to me that the majority of the poor, you wealthy and common life of this country social system of great inequality.

再清楚不过了地说明，你们富有者和大多数穷人共同生活的这个国家社会制度的极大的不平等。

REGIONAL inequality, as measured by the differences in GDP per person across a country, is often huge.

由一个国家人均GDP测算的区域差异通常是巨大的。

It would have been easy to conclude that the tide of history was simply resuming its usual flow towards greater inequality.

这样看来，我们似乎很容易认定，历史的浪潮不过是沿着其惯常的轨迹，朝着不平等继续发展。

And yet, all this progress is under threat. From economic crisis. Rising joblessness and inequality. Climate change.

但是，这一切进展都面临着威胁。威胁来自经济危机，来自失业率上升和不平等，来自气候变化。

It was around that time I discovered that the 'what' was structural inequality, and not just a few individual men behaving badly.

正是在那个时候我才发现了所谓的结构性不平等现象并不是个别男人行为不端。

Even though Americans underestimate how much inequality exists, they still want less of it, as studies have shown since the 1980s.

根据从20世纪80年代的研究，即使美国人低估了存在的收入差距，他们仍然希望这种差距能减小。

America and Britain are reckoned to have among the greatest inequality, among rich countries, as measured by the Gini coefficient.

按基尼系数计算，美英两国都位于富裕国家里收入差距最大的几个国家之列。

His own bet seems to be that in the matter of inequality the American people are less exceptional than they like to think they are.

在不平等的问题上，奥巴马自己的看法是，美国民众的反应没有他们自己想象中的那样异常。

Wealth inequality in the United States is particularly high, surpassing that of most other countries.

美国财富不平等特别严重，超过了其他多数国家。

But the results of these policies have not been significant so far, as the data seems to indicate that inequality continues to rise.

但是，这些政策的效果并不十分显着，到目前为止，为数据似乎表明，不平等继续上升。

A more plausible culprit for rising inequality seems to be technological progress (see chart below).

导致不平等程度日益加重的一个更为可能的罪魁祸首似乎是技术进步（见下图）。

Income inequality is often claimed to be a strong determinant of happiness, and this "fact" used to argue for more progressive taxation.

人们往往主张，收入不平等是幸福与否的重要决定因素，而这一“事实”被用作增加累进税收的理由。

Inequality did seem to fall in the United States after the Great Depression, but in the last 30 years it has increased enormously.

继美国的经济大萧条之后，社会不平等似乎确有减少，然而，过去三十年，社会不平等却大幅增加。

Brazil's score on the Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, is falling, getting closer to that of the United States (see chart 6).

巴西的基尼系数（衡量贫富不均的指数）减低了，接近了美国的数字.（参看图6）。

He said that in aristocratic societies inequality extends into the family, particularly to the father's relationship to his children.

他说，贵族社会的不平等也伸展到家庭中，特别是父亲对孩子的方式。

So you can argue that income inequality is a problem and that education is a good thing. But the two do not appear to be correlated.

所以你可以说，收入不平等是个问题，教育是个好东西，但这两者没表现出什么相关性。

The achievement is undeniably impressive, but China has paid a heavy price for it in terms of ballooning income inequality.

中国取得的成就是不可否认的，但日益膨胀的收入差距使中国付出了沉重的代价。