NIH National Institute of Health.

Worse still, it continues to increase.

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

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

Similarly, China has become more uncoordinated, or fragmented, as its income disparities have continued to widen.

More than 80 of the world s population live in countries where income differentials are widening.

The economy has grown rapidly, inequality is declining, and innovation is on the rise.

While he has pledged not to run in the elections set for November 26, 2011, an alleged mutiny within the military, as well as arrests in April of suspected coup plotters, suggests a widening divide within the military itself.

There was growing inequality, or so it appears from recent scholarly contributions to the so called standard of living debate.

Associated with this low level of consumption is widening inequality between the countryside and the cities, and between the political elites and the masses.

Although wealth and resources are ever expanding, they are unequally spread, resulting in a huge gap between the rich and the poor.

It was to be hoped that implementation of the decisions taken at the recent World Summit on the Information Society would help bridge the ever widening digital divide.

At present, after more than half a year's repeated discussions, differences surrounding the enlargement formula of the Security Council seem to be widening rather than narrowing.

They will rise up, refusing to accept their status as second class citizens of ever expanding urban settlements, and they will destabilize countries like Kenya, undermining efforts to build more stable, prosperous societies.

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.

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.

Protesters vividly express widespread frustration with deepening inequality, and condemnation of privileges of a global financial elite comes uncomfortably close to implicating government.

So what underlies the persistence of gaping inequality and stalled progress? Legal, regulatory, and social discrimination against women in many countries still prevents them from seeking paid work in the formal sector.

What is needed today is nothing less than a new consensus between alliances that are frayed, between wealthy nations and poor, and among peoples mired in mistrust across an apparently widening cultural abyss.

Long term time series data indicate that the socioeconomic mortality gap narrowed before the 1950 s, but has grown substantially since then.

CAMBRIDGE Nothing endangers globalization more than the yawning governance gap the dangerous disparity between the national scope of political accountability and the global nature of markets for goods, capital, and many services that has opened up in recent decades.

But the world currently faces a growing technological divide, with implications for equality, liberty, and the right to pursue happiness that are no less momentous than the racial divide against which King preached.

Notwithstanding all the optimistic and positive efforts at the national and international levels for the eradication of poverty, the gap between the rich developed countries and the poor developing ones is getting wider and economic and social inequalities continue.

Similarly, China has become more uncoordinated, or fragmented, as its income disparities have continued to widen. And sustainability is being jeopardized by environmental degradation and pollution, which pose a growing threat to the country s atmosphere and water supply.

NEW YORK A recent visit to Turkey reminded me of its enormous economic successes during the last decade. The economy has grown rapidly, inequality is declining, and innovation is on the rise.

Asia s Leadership Gap

Tensions are on the rise.

Scope of application of the convention too extensive

Despite notable progress in some areas and regions of the world, the gap between those who have little and those who have much continues to widen and the plethora of promises made in the past decade remain largely unfulfilled.

Widening inequality in the world s advanced and developing countries thus inflicts two blows against democratic politics. Not only does it lead to greater disenfranchisement of the middle and lower classes it also fosters among the elite a poisonous politics of sectarianism.

Individual presidents and secretaries of state will certainly try. But, without Congressional support, they will bring fewer and fewer resources to the table and will suffer from an increasing credibility gap when they seek to negotiate with other countries.

Poverty is on the rise.

But doubts are growing.

That is a growing problem.

The list is a growing one.

It provoked the missile gap.

Closing the Skills Gap

Inequality has been falling.

Income and wealth inequalities worsened.

So the crisis keeps growing.

The gap between the two camps is vast.

There's a hole at the front, and there's a reason for that.

Project activities are significant and expanding, and cover all regions of the world.

The necessary innovations are emerging.