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The Source: Global Inequality

There's a lot of talk these days about income inequity in the United States. That's important but lets broaden the view. Income inequity across the planet.
 

Understanding Global inequity is now more important than ever - because of globalization. Is this movement of trade and services - lifting up the very poor around the world - or not. What are the forces behind global income distribution. 
 

How connected are they to regional destabilization - war and mass migration?

Guest:
 

  • Branko Milanovic - an economist and senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study center. Author of the new book "Global Inequality: A new approach for the age of globalization."
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