A Year of Divergence

The Messy Politics of Economic Divergence

This means that the divergence is widening.

Divergence in policies and convergence in outcomes is not a realistic expectation.

Job creation remains weak, and employment continues to diverge from growth.

The third, and most important, claim is the subject of Noah s The Great Divergence.

A similar divergence, though less acute, has appeared with respect to fiscal policy.

But time is working against them two speed Europe is driving member countries further apart.

In this condition the distance between the inner eye corners as well as the distance between the pupils is greater than normal.

Sweden and Chile are almost poles apart geographically, but both have used sophisticated fiscal rules successfully.

Sovereign creditworthiness will continue to diverge, with a further deterioration in advanced countries and continued improvement in emerging markets.

These almost certainly reflect divergences in terms of that system s distributional impacts.

By contrast, each passing day seems to drive EU members further apart.

The phenomenon of globalization had led to a widening of the development gap between North and South.

The three hours of discussions in an informal, interactive mode lead me to conclude that there are more areas of convergence than of divergence.

Our influence gradually dissipates and ceases to have a noticeable effect on people beyond the social frontier that lies at three degrees of separation .

Thus, divergence over macroeconomic policy will continue at least as long as investors remain willing to buy US public debt.

Because of the low bandwidth and extremely high latency available on the Internet, distributed computing typically deals only with embarrassingly parallel problems.

The view from London contains the same element of distance if not slight apprehension found in the view from Washington.

Estranged during the Cold War by American support for Pakistan and India s leadership of the non aligned movement, the two countries have been drawing ever closer during the last decade.

Stimulating Equality

Office for Equality

Interest rate spreads for Italy and Spain are widening again, while borrowing costs for Portugal and Greece remained high all along.

Mounting regional disparities, as well as the widening urban rural divide, impede household consumption growth, increasing the economy s dependence on exports and foreign investment.

Instead of talking about economic equality, we will now talk about equal sharing of the burden .

Based on the Gender Equality Act the Gender Equality Council will be established.

As far as the concepts of equality and equity were concerned, she informed the Committee that a mass media campaign, entitled Iguales en todos (Equal in Everything), had been launched with a view to promoting a culture of equality.

Equality or Estrangement

Happiness Is Equality

Technology and Inequality

Poverty and inequality.

Equality Before the Law

Equality of Access

Gender equality

States Parties shall accord to women equality with men before the law.

Equality of the sexes

They would have to tackle the banking and the sovereign debt problems simultaneously, without neglecting to reduce divergences in competitiveness.

Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.

The Right to Equality, Then and Now

Education for Equality

Equal Rights Legislation

Gender equality

Gender Equality Act

Gender Equality Council

Equal Treatment Commission (CGB)