The negative effects of globalization had continued to widen the economic and social gap between the developed and developing countries, increasing inequality of income and opportunities.

Globalization in its current form has been partly blamed for the widening gap between rich and poor countries, as measured by the inequality of average incomes across countries.

The gap manifests itself in much higher unemployment rates for high school educated workers than for college educated workers at every stage of the business cycle. The gap also shows up in significant andrising inequality between the earnings of high school educated workers and those with a college degree or higher.

The economic booms in China and India have helped to reduce global inequality. Over the two last decades, masses of Indians and Chinese have closed the gap (in relative terms) with the rich world.

The acute poverty indicator, which takes into consideration not only the gap between the poor and the poverty threshold but also the inequality among those living below the poverty line, was 8.9 per cent in 2004.

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But perhaps the other, bigger gap is what we call the hope gap.

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If we use what is called the Gini coefficient to measure this income gap, with 0 indicating perfect equality of income distribution and 1 meaning perfect inequality, the number for China is 0.454 in 2002. This is an internationally recognized level of absolute disparity.

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There's a gap here.

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Closing Asia s Security Gap

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One negative consequence is the persistent deepening of income inequality. The Gini coefficient of per capita income has surpassed 50 (with 100 representing maximal inequality), putting China in the upper quartile of inequality worldwide.

Poverty and inequality continue to grow unchecked in many countries, and inequality grows, in particular, between countries and between regions.

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And again, closely related to inequality.

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Yet never has inequality been greater.