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The article discusses the increase in the minimum wage and its effects on employment as the government struggles with the rise of inequality over the previous years. David Neumark an economist at university of california argues in his paper that a high minimum wage wage may not be effective in tacking poverty. Other impacts on the increase in minimum wage is higher productivity on the other hand labor is so cheap that there is less incentive to increase the wages. Higher minimum wages could boost the economy and if employers focused on high-skilled workers in the short term, that could boost productivity and the economy in the long term, eventually providing jobs for the low skilled.

A trend is shown where global interest rates gone "relentlessly downward over the past few decades". The rich are getting richer, leaving the rest of the group with less wealth. In addition to that, the rich have a "lower propensity to consumer", this has caused the aggregate demand to fall. It has been noticed that central bank rates have also "trended progressively lower". A conclusion has been made in the article that "as long as wealth and income inequality continue to widen, there will be a savings surplus."

Economic growth in Africa is expected to accelerate to 4.7% this year and 5% in 2015, but the advance is failing to translate into job creation and the broad-based development needed to reduce high poverty and rising inequality rates in many countries, the UN has said.