The link between poor dental health and poor vascular health has been suggested before.
According to Nobelist Douglas North, the main difference between poor and rich nations is not growth rates.
Ned Kelly, a Robin-Hood-like folk hero, represented the struggle between poor rural Irish Australians and the repressive British ruling class during and after transportation.
Schools in England will no longer be rated as "outstanding" by inspectors if they fail to close the attainment gap between poor and affluent children.
BBH, for example, has nearly finished a new malting plant, the largest in Russia, freeing it from the choice between poor-quality Russian supplies or expensive imports.
The South Africa scrum-half was intent on booting away most of the hard-won possession, while the kicks themselves took in the full range between poor and shocking.
According to Audit Integrity, there is a strong correlation between poor scores on its tests and the likelihood of accounting or other irregularities cropping up at a future date.
Experts at the National Antisocial Behaviour Clinic based at London's Maudsley Hospital draw a direct line between poor parenting and a range of social problems including educational under-achievement, criminality and drug misuse.
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.
While rich countries would benefit most from getting rid of their crazy agricultural systems, the World Bank analysis suggests that 80% of the benefits reaped by poor countries from farm reform would come from reductions in the barriers between poor countries themselves.
The peacock with the bigger feathers still gets the hen, the rabbit buck with the white tail still gets the doe and genes get exchanged between rich men and pretty women more often than they do between poor men and pretty women or rich men and ugly women.
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If I were to ask you which generation of employees is experiencing the most financial hardship, you might think of the Baby Boomers approaching retirement after a decade of weak stock and real estate markets or the Millennials squeezed between poor job prospects and high student loan payments.
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The rise in inequality is, as those protesters reminded us as they camped out last year, not really between the poor and the middle classes, nor really even between the middle and the upper.
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In fact, according to studies undertaken by the World Bank, economic growth, far from widening inequality, has reduced the gap between rich and poor within and between provinces, as well as lifting millions above the poverty line.
The road is open, and let us keep it open between the poor and the rich.
"Where we need to get to, to grow the economy, is the bit in between individual poor entrepreneurs and larger businesses, which are small and medium-term enterprises, and that's what needs to be supported, " he argues.
The FLEMMS also revealed, however, a significant gap between the poor and the non-poor populations, showing that 7 out of 10 persons who were poor were functionally literate compared to 9 out of 10 among the non-poor.
To confirm this result, the researchers also looked at characteristics such as each participant's birthweight, his mother's age when she gave birth, the mother's level of education and her marital status, all of which differ, on average, between the poor and the middle classes.
The charter, the first of its type applied to cancer patients, urges doctors to attempt to close the gaps in treatment between rich and poor countries, strengthening cooperation between scientists in different countries.
But he voiced concern about the income gap between rich and poor in Russia.
But sprawl changes the nature of the division between rich and poor, separating them physically.
Guatemala has one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the world.
Although absolute levels of poverty have dipped, the gulf between rich and poor is still widening.
They slip between the cracks in society, flitting between rich and poor quarters, city and countryside.
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But the gap between rich and poor had widened too far for many New Zealanders.
As a result, the income gap between rich and poor countries started to widen again.
But he said the gap in educational achievement between rich and poor was "still far too wide".
Will the welfare reforms widen or narrow the gap between rich and poor communities in the UK?
Over time the differences in fertility between rich and poor should narrow as everyone has fewer anklebiters.
Earlier research in Latin America found that demographic change increased the income gap between rich and poor.
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