The national poverty gap, the average person's level of consumption below the poverty line, is 29 per cent, while the depth of poverty is concentrated in the rural areas.

It has set its economy on the right course, reduced poverty, lessened inequality, and consolidated its democracy.

But, amid enduring poverty, rising inequality, and lackluster growth in many developing countries, the success of past anti poverty policies and programs appears dubious.

It provoked the missile gap.

Closing the Skills Gap

Ensuring long term stability will require poverty reduction, job creation, reduced income inequality, and the development of these countries human resources.

Asia s Leadership Gap

The Transatlantic Growth Gap

However, there is a large financing gap.

These may be quite large, such as Oregon s Devil s Punchbowl or the Queen s Bath on the Na Pali coast.

Inequality has been falling.

Income and wealth inequalities worsened.

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

The economic and social policies adopted by the Government did not lead to the necessary progress in decreasing the inequality gap, confronting extreme poverty, decreasing illiteracy and unemployment rates and increasing access to health care and housing.

The divide is physical, not just mental.

The main weakness of Latin America s economies is that they will be unable to generate the type of rapid and sustained growth required to create jobs and reduce inequality and poverty.

Eliminating subsidies and trade barriers would mean that resources could be used more efficiently, so there would be more scope to reduce inequality and poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, malnutrition, and disease.

The resulting fiscal austerity plunged many below the poverty line and accelerated economic inequality, while many private institutions, having caused the 2008 bust, recovered on the public dime.

How the Fed Just Reduced Inequality

There's no gap between rich and poor any longer. This is a myth.

That is an extraordinary gap in the returns that you can reasonably expect.

However, there exists a breathtaking gap in our scientific knowledge of the resources of sea.

Europe s democratic deficit is less a gap between European institutions and European citizens than between national politics and European problems.

But the digital divide is no immutable gap.

Currently, there appears to be a gap in the observed mass distribution of black holes.

The find will help fill in an enormous gap in the history of these creatures.

The establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission will bridge an important institutional gap.

Reflecting on the G8's recent decision to cancel the multilateral debt of several poor countries, he recalled UNCTAD's pioneering role in advocating debt relief as an essential condition for overcoming the poverty trap .

As a result, income inequality in Brazil is declining.

Economic inequality is deeper than ever.

So, will anything prevent inequality from widening?

Nevertheless, a significant gap between policy and practice, however, remains.

So while net job creation will continue and the unemployment rate will maintain its downward trajectory both highly welcome the labor market s evolution risks fueling rather than countering already significant income and wealth inequalities, as well as poverty.

In medicine, there is a huge and unbridgeable gap in expertise and information between doctors and patients.

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

Increasingly, citizen journalists and bloggers fill in the void of Israeli mainstream media coverage.

There is also a major funding gap in our national recovery and reconstruction programme.

While poverty has decreased slightly since 1994, inequality has vaulted upward, fueled by extreme unemployment, state incapacity, corruption, and affirmative action policies skewed toward the upper reaches of the economy (not to mention the pernicious legacy of apartheid).

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

That means breaking down barriers and inequalities, building capacity, and disseminating knowledge.

A nearly unbridgeable mental gap now separates Russians and Caucasian young people.

Calculate a similarity score that is the sum of the joined regions penalising for each gap 20 points.

But there should not be a gap between what society accepted and what its laws asserted.

Moreover, there was still a gap between assessed needs and available funds.

Thus, a slow growth high inequality economy may become a self perpetuating cycle.