She voices an unease that they share about the distribution of Chile's rapidly rising national income: a recent official survey found fewer poor households than before, but a wider gap between poor and rich.
And the poor are indeed getting rich. and it is those very factories, that very offshoring of manufacturing, which has enabled the poor to get rich.
Imagine a society that has a bell-shaped income distribution curve with a broad middle class, a smaller number of rich and poor, and an even smaller number of super rich and super poor.
Charity is no longer charity: it is applying capitalism to make the poor rich.
The city is a mix of the poor and rich, of slums and luxury hotels.
As they went from poor to rich they too would be wired up to landline networks.
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According to Nobelist Douglas North, the main difference between poor and rich nations is not growth rates.
Above all, as the gap between poor and rich yawns, they point to the smell of corruption.
The poor in rich countries often consume more than they earn, because they receive welfare benefits and use public services.
One approach to this policy dilemma is mixed-income housing the governmental nudge to put poor and rich folks in the same city neighborhood.
But setbacks in making the shift from poor to rich are inevitable.
Any self-respecting bank bull likes to whip out a chart comparing the ratio of bank loans with GDP in poor and rich countries.
The poor rich people in Guernsey have been beset by power outages and road closures to fix downed cables due to wet and wintry weather.
And, most patriarchal though it may sound, almost misogynistic, one way for the poorer to make the leap from poor to rich is by marrying up.
Whether poor, rich or somewhere in-between, China will certainly need to spend some money to provide a basic social safety net for its people, not just the old but everyone.
One small step in the right direction would be to adopt a supplementary MDG commitment to halve by 2015 the gap between poor and rich when it comes child survival and school attendance.
Just as the workers at Exxon would be poor not rich by global standards i9f they had a low value add: for they would have the low wages to go along with the low productivity.
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They are what you get when you plot data for poor and rich countries together at a given moment in time, but actual levels of various pollutants in any individual country plotted over time wiggle around a lot more.
The conflict is usually described as pitting indigenous Bolivians in the uplands against descendants of Spain in the lowlands, or poor versus rich, but in fact Santa Cruz is ethnically mixed and average incomes in the two cities are comparable.
The lack of technological knowledge is the reason for the wide disparity between the rich and the poor nations today, because the rich nations are getting richer much faster than the poor nations due to investment in technological knowledge, the gap will continue to widen.
Well because it is, it does create greater differences between rich and poor, it's run by the rich countries and not for the benefit of the poor, so I think they, they need to take the, the interests of the poorer countries, the periphery countries more into account.
Hooked on wealth redistribution they have taken taxing the rich to subsidise the poor to the next level, taxing the rich European countries to subsidise the poor less well governed euro-countries.
Republicans have been politically hampered in their arguments against raising taxes on the rich, providing no effective push back to this pitting of poor against the rich for political gain.
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Today, transfers from rich countries to poor, and downwards redistribution within poor countries, are in the collective interests of the rich countries.
Exactly the same logic tells us that if the rich are more likely to spend than the poor then we must tax the poor and give the money to the rich to spend.
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If it were easy to become rich we all would be, but as the rich and poor alike know intimately, getting rich is surely glorious, but also very difficult.
Severe social problems are not limited to the very poor some children in poor families flourish and some in rich ones do not.
The road is open, and let us keep it open between the poor and the rich.
Poor kids and rich kids would be more likely to meet each other on the playground.
Global inequality is indeed falling and as we can see the formerly poor are getting rich.
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