The skewed incentives distorted our economy and our society.

We are concerned at the increasingly skewed institutional balance within the Organization.

The political system is deeply skewed against challenges to the two incumbent parties.

The wealth gap between China s urban and rural regions has badly skewed China s education.

It will also (partly) mitigate the concentration of wealth that results from a highly skewed income distribution.

This is difficult, given that a skewed income distribution is usually a legacy of a country s history.

And these losses are massively skewed in ways that are grossly inefficient, in addition to being completely unfair.

But Borlaug s death at 95 also is a reminder of how skewed our system of values has become.

The current skewed power structures in the world body cannot be condoned on any conceivable grounds of democracy.

If Japan s status quo is to change, the country s oddly skewed relationship with the US is one key factor.

Income distribution has skewed in favor of the rich for too long, and the government has failed to provide decent public goods.

Although the March 14 coalition already controlled Parliament, its majority had been repeatedly attacked as the result of a severely skewed election law.

This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.

If African products are forced to compete in markets skewed toward European and American producers, Africans do not have a fair chance to develop.

Put differently, in a winner take all world, raising the average level of skills or education does nothing to alter the skewed distribution of income.

But, owing to China s skewed economic structure, its exchange rate regime presents much more challenging problems than those encountered by Japan and other East Asian economies.

When a distribution is skewed and not symmetrical around a middle value, the mean can fail to describe properly the population and its change over time.

A Selectric switch has a similar design, but the contacts on the wires are skewed, often at a 45 degree angle, rather than being lined up.

If things are left as they are, writes Watanabe, a skewed perception of history without knowledge of the horrors of the war will be handed down to future generations.

It is no longer possible to sustain the current world order, which, based as it is on a skewed notion of center periphery relations, merely produces injustice and inequality.

Both policies reflect the skewed distribution of China s population, with more than 90 squeezed into the eastern half of the country, creating extreme congestion and the potential for political instability.

Just like we ve realized the false fragmented skewed stories around different neighborhoods, how do you think other people think or imagine your personal neighborhood? What are the stereotypes surrounding your neighborhood?

Or reporting about aid programs may be skewed to keep donor funds flowing. The greatest danger is that humanitarian relief will be tailored to meet donors demands, rather than actual needs.

The MTR results in the health and education sectors referred only to UNICEF interventions without linkages to national initiatives, giving a somewhat skewed picture of the overall impact of the programme.

Put differently, in a winner take all world, raising the average level of skills or education does nothing to alter the skewed distribution of income. So, will anything prevent inequality from widening?

The results for extreme pessimism were skewed in the opposite direction 14 of Sunnis thought things were as bad as could be, while only 2 of Kurds and 3 of Shi ites shared this opinion.

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This will happen at a time when the country s skewed demographics causes the workforce to shrink and the flow of migration from rural areas to cities to slow (the rural population now disproportionately comprises the elderly).

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China s income distribution has become highly skewed at 0.438, the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, puts the country closer to the United States than to northern Europe s egalitarian societies (with the exception of the United Kingdom).

It was not preferential policies or skewed resource allocation by the government that caused China s coastal cities to boom, but rather their proximity to the ocean, which was and remains the cheapest way to move resources and products.

While poverty has decreased slightly since 1994, inequality has vaulted upward, fueled by extreme unemployment, state incapacity, corruption, and affirmative action policies skewed toward the upper reaches of the economy (not to mention the pernicious legacy of apartheid).

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