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R Diverse forms of government action, from wage laws to taxation, and the provision of education and healthcare to the redistribution of land, seek to address inequality. Such actions from those in power are usually in response to pressures, representations and movements from, among others, workers, minorities, peasants and women. They include a range of measures, both coercive and persuasive. Laws that set a minimum wage are one way of increasing the income of the poorest workers. They are likely to be more effective where people are formally employed in the industrialized sector, rather than in informal unregulated work and enterprise. Redistribution through progressive taxation, which taxes the better-off at a higher rate in order to reduce the tax burden on the poor, is used in many European countries, but is less

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