Mind the Gap

Since 1980, the world has witnessed a widening income gap among developing countries.

As a result, Mexico s income gap with the US and Canada has barely narrowed.

In fact, the Chinese government attempted to crack down on unreported income in 2010 in order to reverse the widening income gap.

The gap is actually a bit narrower than this, since the dollar price of goods is lower in poorer countries, so that each dollar of income buys more than in rich countries. Once we take into account the purchasing power of dollars, the gap in incomes is approximately seven times between the rich and the poor countries.

Once we take into account the purchasing power of dollars, the gap in incomes is approximately seven times between the rich and the poor countries.

Similarly, while bankers have regained their bonuses, workers are seeing their wages eroded and their hours diminished, further widening the income gap.

The gap between spouses' earnings is a separate reason to reconsider the traditional family paradigm Igor Suvalov's wife earns almost 25 times more than him, and Mrs. Sukhenko earns 60 times more than her husband, although their income is more modest by far.

The Productivity Gap

The Transatlantic Growth Gap

Development s Digital Divide

These trends are exacerbating income inequality.

The Great Disconnect

At the same time, there are 107 low and middle income economies in the world, with an average income per person of 1,090, and a combined population of 4.8 billion people, or 84 percent of the world s population.

The gap is actually a bit narrower than this, since the dollar price of goods is lower in poorer countries, so that each dollar of income buys more than in rich countries.

Thus, even if the absolute income gap between an average American and an average African increases, why worry?

Now, all can see these income differences.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is not only the gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.

Break to Avoid a Breakup

Sarkozy s Secret Rupture

Income differences were not always so huge.

Today, they are comparable with American income disparities.

After all, when China and India close even half the income gap separating them from the industrial core of the world economy, the sheer size of their populations alone will guarantee that they become very great powers.

Today has been closing the gap on Sunrise in recent months.

The only part that is true is that differences in per capita income are extreme.

Tidak hanya masyarakatnya akan menjadi tua dengan cepat semakin berkurangnya kesenjangan pendapatan antara negara negara maju dengan negara negara berkembang menciptakan kemungkinan menurunnya aliran perpindahan penduduk, menyusutkan jumlah tenaga kerja sebesar 20 di eurozone dan 15 di Amerika Serikat.

Economic growth rates reveal the same gap.

The market has, they claim, already priced in such a rupture.

Of course, there will still be a digital divide.

In the past, a poor African might have looked at his compatriots and resented their wealth now, both he and his better off compatriots look at the rich world and resent the huge income gaps they see.

In practice, the situation looks entirely different the income gap in developing economies is, on the contrary, growing.

That won t be good for profits, or for the poor.

In Europe, women long ago bridged the education gap with their male peers.

The recent election marked a profound break from the past.

The gap between US rhetoric and policies has widened.

Yes, the the gap can be bridged through the internet.

In his view, this difference in attitude explains the income gap between Europe and the US.

But Russia needs the revenue at least as much as Europe needs the energy.

Poland now has a huge gap between the levels of perceived and actual corruption.

At the start of the year the gap was running at between 40,000 and 50,000.

A local man entered the gorge and was horrified to see the amount of dead fish and snakes and oil slicks everywhere.

That is, the per capita GDP gap between China and developed countries essentially reflects the gap between them in terms of overall technological and industrial achievement.

How can we narrow the existing differences in development and material welfare within Europe?

This is really a change, that you have this lag of more or less 30, 40 years' difference on the health.

If today s globalization continues to widen income gaps, the waves of migration will grow.