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Major Policy Frontiers in Remedying Inequality

The economic disparities among various racial and ethnic groups in nearly every country in the world persist. Approaches to remedying those disparities vary from place to place and through time. The crowning achievement of the Roy Wilkins Center over the past 20 years has been its ability to convene the top policy makers, researchers, and analysts to debate and reconcile competing methods for solving problems of racial and ethnic economic inequality. Previous World Conferences (Minneapolis, 1996; South Australia, 1998; South Africa, 2001) produced measureable gains by connecting disparate views and resolving conflicting approaches to remedying inequality. While the conferences provided profound intellectual content, they were accessible to lay audiences, as well. Ten years have passed since the last conference and much has transpired in the past decade. The time is now to reconvene the previous participants and to bring new stakeholders together to reflect upon and reconsider alternative approaches to remedying racial and ethnic economic inequality, a unique unifying opportunity of this conference.

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