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 | Kartik Chandra Roy, Srikanta Chatterjee - 2006 - 210 pages
...malnutrition. Regarding income inequality, it can be said that the distribution of global gains in GDP has been extraordinarily unequal. The average income in the...countries is 37 times the average in the poorest 20. To alleviate poverty, efforts from local, national and global levels are essential. The participation... | |
 | Ralph V. Brenos - 2006 - 162 pages
...malnutrition. Regarding income inequality, it can be said that the distribution of global gains in GDP has been extraordinarily unequal. The average income in the...countries is 37 times the average in the poorest 20. To alleviate poverty, efforts from local, national and global levels are essential. The participation... | |
 | Eduardo Mendieta - 2012 - 236 pages
...day, with 44 percent living in South Asia." Or, to put it in terms of another index of comparison, "The average income in the richest 20 countries is...20 — a gap that has doubled in the past 40 years. "36 The growth that has accompanied economic globalization has also been deceiving, and misrepresented.... | |
 | United Nations - 2007 - 456 pages
...continuing basis such as to allow one to see how their inclusion affects trends in inequality. 17 Thus "The average income in the richest 20 countries is...20 — a gap that has doubled in the past 40 years" (International Monetary Fund, 2000: 50, cited in Firebaugh, 2003: 18). 18 Although there are tricky... | |
 | 1998 - 144 pages
...malnutrition. Regarding income inequality, it can be said that the distribution of global gains in GDP has been extraordinarily unequal. The average income in the...countries is 37 times the average in the poorest 20. To alleviate poverty, efforts from local, national and global levels are essential. The participation... | |
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