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Inequality: troubling trends and why economic growth in Africa is key to reducing global disparities

October 18, 2023
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Imraan Valodia (Special to BHN) Inequality remains on the top of the policy priority list for most countries in the world. Branko Milanovic, a leading scholar on inequality, recently delivered a lecture titled “Recent changes in the global income distribution and their political implications” at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Imraan Valodia asked

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