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In its report on human development published this Monday, December 9, the United Nations links events that have agitated the whole world recently: all would originate inequalities of a new kind such as life expectancy to birth, percentage of population with primary education or number of mobile phone subscriptions.
With our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten
Better education in early childhood, easier access to university education, faster broadband internet connection ... For the UN Human Development Report published this Monday , December 9 , these are new forms of inequalities, because they are now conditions sine qua non for success. And the sections of the population who are deprived of it will go down to the streets to claim them more and more often.
The institution also believes that the leaders did not understand the frustrations swelling around the world, from Chile to Lebanon through France . For Achim Steiner, the administrator of the United Nations Development Program, these tensions are found cyclically in history: during the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution ...
The UN also warns in this report that new harms could come particularly from technological transformation, or climate change , from now to the twenty-second century.
Several solutions proposed by the institution
The UN proposes a series of solutions and public policy avenues to mitigate these " divergences ". Among them, an international consensus on the taxation of digital activities, better social protection to ensure fair remuneration for the new generation of workers on the web, or recycle revenue from carbon pricing to the benefit of taxpayers.
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