The gap between the developed and developing countries is widening.

The gap between the rich and the poor is widening.

Third, a widening generation gap has spread to the ruling elites.

That includes the widening gap between the rich and the poor.

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

In Latin America, the gap between large landowners and small peasants is widening.

That is surprising, given the widening political gap between America s two main political parties.

The worst of all these phenomena undoubtedly remains the widening gap between moral progress and technological advances.

The phenomenon of globalization had led to a widening of the development gap between North and South.

Whatever the case, the region s populations are growing restless, and the gap between rulers and ruled is widening.

Indeed, the application of rigid solutions has contributed rather to a further widening of the gap between countries.

As these countries posted current account deficits, northern European countries accumulated current account surpluses, exposing a widening competitiveness gap.

Improving access to vaccines is crucial to addressing this global inequity and reducing the widening gap between rich and poor.

The problem is that, although Africa's economic appeal is increasing, India and China are improving more quickly, widening the gap.

This gap in science and technology capacity between the developed countries and a majority of developing countries is generally still widening.

Environmental deterioration is severe, the Gini index (the gap between rich and poor) is widening, and official corruption has not been curbed.

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

And sadly, the gap between dreams and reality is widening, and consequently deepening the feeling of loss, and hate for the country.

Many Chinese seem to believe that market discipline will bring fair competition and contribute to closing the widening gap between rich and poor.

Moreover, the economy wide productivity gap between the US and Western Europe does not appear to be widening very rapidly, if at all.

However, despite such increases, the Secretary General reports that the gap between male and female literacy rates in Asia and Africa appears to be widening.

A major concern after the withdrawal of UNAMSIL would be a widening information gap, as currently there is no clear cut Government public information policy.

A widening gap in economic performance and political dominance is such a dismal prospect for the EU that it must not be allowed to become permanent.

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.

Globalization in its current form has been partly blamed for the widening gap between rich and poor countries, as measured by the inequality of average incomes across countries.

The result is a multiplication of weasel words that chill political and moral debate, and that create a widening gap between public language and what many ordinary people think.

This is one of the reasons that America has the highest level of inequality of any of the advanced countries and its gap with the rest has been widening.

Our world today is witnessing rapid and successive developments, often marked by an increase of tensions and the widening of the development gap between the North and the South.

The result has been a widening gap between rich and poor, together with a commensurate rise in the type of urban poverty that so bedevils cities like Rio de Janeiro.

So, over time, fiscal accounts worsen automatically, creating a vicious circle monetized fiscal deficits lead to inflation and a widening gap in the parallel exchange rate market which worsens the fiscal deficit.

As a result of the widening gap with regard to access to technology, our countries have fallen behind in their efforts to advance and to ensure the well being of their people.

Deeply concerned at the inadequacy of measures to narrow the widening gap between the developed and the developing countries, which adversely affects the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly in the developing countries,

Reaffirming that the widening gap between the economically developed and developing countries is unsustainable and that it impedes the realization of human rights in the international community, and makes it all the more imperative for every nation, according to its capacities, to make the maximum possible effort to close this gap,

Reaffirming that the widening gap between the economically developed and developing countries is unsustainable and that it impedes the realization of human rights in the international community, and makes it all the more imperative for every nation, according to its capacities, to make the maximum possible effort to close this gap,

But an equally fundamental division one that has contributed as much to the ongoing insurrection as sectarian strife and opposition to the American led military occupation is the widening gap between Iraq s rich and poor.

The Gulf States Widening Gulf

Southeast Asia s Widening Arms Race

To be sure, the European Central Bank could cut interest rates further (widening the gap between banks borrowing costs and what they charge for loans is a classic way to help them earn profits and recapitalize themselves).

Non state actors like Hamas and Hezbollah, or the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan that shield themselves behind a defenseless civilian population expose the widening gap between the traditional rules of war and the realities of today s battlefield.

North Korea and Asia s Widening Arms Race

This means that the divergence is widening.

So, will anything prevent inequality from widening?

Environmental deterioration is severe, the Gini index (the gap between rich and poor) is widening, and official corruption has not been curbed. Nor has domestic consumption been sufficiently expanded, leaving economic growth overly dependent on exports and foreign investment.

Deeply concerned that the widening gap between the developed and the developing countries, and within countries, has contributed, inter alia, to deepening poverty and has adversely affected the full enjoyment of all human rights, in particular in developing countries,

Deeply concerned that the widening gap between the developed and the developing countries, and within countries, has contributed, inter alia, to deepening poverty and has adversely affected the full enjoyment of all human rights, in particular in developing countries,