The income gap between developed and developing countries has widened, and poverty has increased in many developing countries.

Narrowing the gap with industrialized high income countries continues to be the world s main development challenge.

Even more important has been the growing gap between average (mean) and median income that is, the proportion of the population living on half or less of the average income in the US and Britain has been growing.

If we use what is called the Gini coefficient to measure this income gap, with 0 indicating perfect equality of income distribution and 1 meaning perfect inequality, the number for China is 0.454 in 2002.

European Union At EU level, the gender pay gap is defined as the relative difference in the average gross hourly earnings of women and men within the economy as a whole.

Consequently, and despite a further slowdown in the advanced countries during the 1990s, income gaps grew wider and convergence failed to materialize (UNCTAD, 1997 69 101).

The negative effects of globalization had continued to widen the economic and social gap between the developed and developing countries, increasing inequality of income and opportunities.

The reforms endorsed by the Third Plenum focus on this wedge between income and consumption, offering specific proposals aimed at altering the behavior of fear driven Chinese families.

Closing Europe s Strategy Gap

Closing Asia s Security Gap

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

Bridging the digital divide

Mind the Gap

अफ र क क क ष स ब ध ल ग क अ तर क सम प त करन

The gap in technological capabilities is increasing.

The gap filling role

Thus, even if the absolute income gap between an average American and an average African increases, why worry? After all, such people argue, the average African would be a bit less poor.

It paid only 90 per cent of the gap, while the remaining 10 per cent (about 140 million annually) is covered by net factor income, which is mainly the income of Palestinian workers in Israel.

At the same time, the gap between the length of the working week of men and women is larger in rural areas than the gap among men and women in cities.

It is one of only four countries (along with Brazil, Panama, and the Dominican Republic) that have managed to reduce the per capita income gap with the United States since 1960. As the IADB has pointed out in several earlier reports, productivity has been stagnant in most of Latin America for a half century or more.

Then the gap is divided by the shrink factor again, the list is sorted with this new gap, and the process repeats until the gap is 1.

Stagnant or falling real wages often coincided with rising unemployment and widening income gaps between skilled and unskilled labour (ILO, 2004 40 45 Akyuz et al, 2005).

Things have been different for couple of years.. the gap is increasing, and I'm doing nothing about it..

Worse still, it continues to increase.

The gap between Shanghai and the United Kingdom and the United States is as big as the gap between the U.K. and the U.S.

Total personal income is a key value in calculating per capita income.

Low and middle income families will benefit from a notable increase in disposable income.

If the cleft extends into the maxillary alveolar ridge, the gap is usually corrected by filling the gap with bone tissue.

Moreover, between 1950 and 2008, only 28 economies in the world and only 12 non Western economies were able to narrow their per capita income gap with the United States by ten percentage points or more.

The gap, instead, reflects recent historical choices.

In financing for development, what is most urgent now is to bridge the financial gap.

China recognizes, too, that what separates less developed from more developed countries is not only a gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.

The digital divide isn t much of a divide anymore it s the literacy divide that is holding many people back.

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.

Employment of women in the garment industry was reversing this trend to some extent, but the gender gap in education and training indicates that the gap in remuneration is likely to continue.

Nineteen were high income, 21 were middle income and 10 were low income countries.

Bridging the Transatlantic Digital Divide

The gap between Europe s security needs and its military capacities is widening, and most European leaders lack the will to do what is necessary to close it.

I'm just watching.. at times it's really painful.. other times I try to let it go.. but I can't stand myself anymore.. a step should be taken.. however, whenever I just think of trying, I find something increasing the gap.. day by day my will is fading..

Europe may be better off with stop gap measures.

China recognizes, too, that what separates less developed from more developed countries is not only a gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge. So it has laid out bold plans not only to reduce that gap, but to create a basis for independent innovation.

Other significant changes relate to income distribution, with average income rising and growing in the high end and the low end segments of the market.

Moreover, it is a pattern that has closed the gap (now roughly 40 ) between per capita income in America s poorest and richest states, as labor and capital continually adjust by moving to areas where productivity is higher.

It is time to bridge the gap between them.

But they are not big enough to fill the gap.