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The case for income redistribution is being made once again.
The budget will inevitably involve a redistribution of resources.
She described the goverment changes as a massive radical redistribution of power.

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redistribution | Business English

redistribution
noun[ U or S ]
uk /ˌriːdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃən/us
ECONOMICS, POLITICS
the process of sharing something out again in a different way, especially one that is fairer:
the redistribution of income/power/wealth

Examples of redistribution

redistribution
In this part we examine papers on redistribution, constitutional design, and the incentives and quality of political elites.
Ultimately, the public health concern was taken into account without requiring any redistribution to the detriment of industrial use.
Of course, this is a concern to those who received land to cultivate during the redistributions of 1975-76 and 1997.
In both scenarios, almost half of the redistribution away from the top quintile went to the third and fourth quintiles.
Proposals for egalitarian redistribution are frequently objected to on the grounds that they will undermine incentives to work and invest in human capital.
With a well-developed state apparatus, strong enforcement with taxation of the rents earmarked for redistribution would certainly be superior.
The just rate of redistribution may have to be adjusted, depending on how important backward-looking considerations of individual responsibility are taken to be.
In addition, it continuously monitors the heat consumption and sends each minute a report to the redistribution agent of the cluster it belongs to.
Besides, we have here excluded annuitizations of private savings, so that public redistribution is the only form of insurance against the mortality risk.
Yet most of the impact of the policy initiatives in the short and medium term depends on redistribution.
Arguments about the proper distribution or redistribution of society's fruits, for instance, involve criteria of fairness or justice and hence count as non-economic.
Systems of redistribution are characteristic of federal or unitary states rather than of associations of developed nation states.
On the other hand, such a 'redistribution' would leave both the potential unemployed and the five, respectively, unharmed.
Like other authors in the volume he is concerned that nation-states are recognising cultural difference as a substitute for engaging in a politics of redistribution.
Potential contributors are regarded not simply as repositories of resources but as potentially cooperative agents who must together work out a scheme of redistribution.
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