And yet even if the income gap were narrowed, the scarcity would remain and it would still be the case that the richer households push out the poorer ones.
He said health statistics showed that the problem of hazardous and harmful drinking was actually most common among the richer, rather than the poorer, sections of society.
For the better part of a decade, we've seen the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the middle class get squeezed.
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Second, there is a consensus that some people are being left behind by China's rapid growth - 81% of those polled agree that today the "rich just get richer while the poor get poorer".
That is right, Progressives, what all your huffing and puffing has achieved is the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer.
Japan's is the only major economy in the world where house prices will make people richer rather than poorer over the next five years.
The UK has proposed scrapping EU funding for the poorer regions of the richer countries.
The ethical question is not only about comparing the well-being of future generations relative to ours but also about comparing the well-being of richer and poorer societies, today and in the future.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the hapless middle class is squeezed in between.
While the poor are getting richer in Brazil while the poor get poorer in the U.S., there is still no comparing poverty and even middle class incomes in the two countries.
Broadly speaking, countries that are more ethnically or racially homogeneous are more comfortable with the state seeking to mitigate inequality by transferring some resources from richer to poorer people through the fiscal system.
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The richer half of Europe decided to downplay its engagement with the poorer portion until the latter, mostly on its own, reached a more "appropriate" stage of development.
Mr Lidington advocates cutting the money that richer countries, like the UK itself, receive for their poorer regions.
And in some cities the poor are poorer and the rich richer than the national average.
If marriage is to fulfill its aspirations, it must be defined by the commitment of one to another for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health not by the people it excludes.
The disparity indicates richer nations are buying resources from poorer countries which have natural resources available to exploit, the report said.
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But the deadlines were pushed far into the future 2010 for richer members, 2020 for poorer and few countries show any will to meet them.
He added there should be greater transfer of wealth from richer parts of the eurozone to poorer parts.
This is partly because the richest countries have been rapidly getting richer, but also because many of the poorest countries have been getting poorer.
The Welsh government has always recognised the need for discipline in the overall EU budget but it cannot be right for EU money allocated to the UK to be siphoned away from poorer regions, like west Wales and the Valleys - to richer regions elsewhere.
"The Welsh government has always recognised the need for discipline in the overall EU budget but it cannot be right for EU money allocated to the UK to be siphoned away from poorer regions, like west Wales and the Valleys - to richer regions elsewhere, " he said.
"The strategy has been targeted at low income households in an attempt to reduce the health inequalities that exist between richer and poorer families".
According to the OECD, America is one of only three advanced countries which spends less on the education of poorer children than richer ones.
Yes, the poorer countries in the big emerging markets are getting richer.
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He is now richer, the apple grower is now poorer, and the economy is worse off due to the central bank having distorted the natural allocation of value created through free interactions in the market.
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But Volpon shows that these adjustments have already taken place, as evidenced by a 3% difference in unemployment rate between richer Sao Paulo and the poorer, Northern city of Recife observed from 2005 to 2007 had already been eliminated by 2008.
The world is getting richer, not poorer.
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Too many non-European commentaries follow a beguilingly simple logical path, which goes like this: the single currency is vulnerable in a crisis because it was created without a single government above it to control tax, spending and transfers between the euro zone's richer and poorer economies.
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