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Economic experts challenged Scotland's politicians to tackle inequality

Economic experts challenged Scotland's politicians yesterday to tackle inequality, warning that tinkering with tax rates wasn't enough.

Inequality in Scotland is around five percentage points higher than it is in Nordic countries, according to the GINI index - commonly used as a measure of inequality of wealth.

But University of Stirling researchers Dr David Comerford and David Eiser warned that even an independent Scotland would find its new fiscal powers "relatively blunt tools with which to address inequality."

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