Understanding the complex interactions between opportunities, endowments, and market outcomes underlying distributional change is necessary to the establishment of a development strategy that takes into full account the specific needs and characteristics of a country. Education can help by addressing inequality of both outcomes and opportunities - raising the minimum level of education can offset inequality-increasing pressures originating from the structural changes that shifting wealth has brought with it. Preferences for redistribution as a means of reducing inequality differ from country to country and change over time - understanding how is an additional challenge/or policy makers trying to build social cohesion. Inequality can hamper further growth, breed social resentment, and generate political instability by fuelling populist and protectionist sentiments.