redistribute income/wealth/resources etc• Increased real income provides us with an admirabledetour around the rancor anciently associated with efforts to redistribute wealth.• Public policy should redistribute income and subsidise, if not deliver directly, essential services such as education and health.• Other policies that influencesavingsrates or redistribute income from capital to labour will in general change.• The Conservatives' taxation and benefit policies have redistributed income from the poor to the rich.• There is a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor.• Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.• Ethically, it is impossible to redistribute income intentionally in a developing country to see if civilstrifeerupts.• It can be used to focus efforts to redistribute income precisely where they belong: on the poor.