The raising of issues like child labour and the widening gap between rich and poor may further embarrass the Indian Government.

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The ANC has also come under mounting criticism for ineffective responses to the country's biggest problems, such as high unemployment and the widening gap between the rich and the poor.

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So as income inequality grew, the government propped up spending by promoting easy credit for less wealthy Americans, and much of the profit from that easy credit fed the wealth of the richest, widening the gap between rich and poor yet further.

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Have you not seen, so they berate me, the ever-widening gap between rich and poor in modern Britain?

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They are upset about rising inflation and a widening gap between the rich and the poor.

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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.

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Today, the factories are gone, the average citizen earns more than the average European, and the gap between the rich and the poor is vast and widening.

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