Since 1980, the world has witnessed a widening income gap among developing countries.

The gap in technological development was widening.

The gap in development levels is steadily widening.

Similarly, while bankers have regained their bonuses, workers are seeing their wages eroded and their hours diminished, further widening the income gap.

The gap between the developed and developing countries is widening.

The gap between the rich and the poor is widening.

Third, a widening generation gap has spread to the ruling elites.

That includes the widening gap between the rich and the poor.

And you see the female line since 1984, the gap is widening.

In Latin America, the gap between large landowners and small peasants is widening.

That is surprising, given the widening political gap between America s two main political parties.

Rather, the economic gap between them and other regions of the world is widening.

More striking is the widening of the gap between the OECD member countries and Africa.

The worst of all these phenomena undoubtedly remains the widening gap between moral progress and technological advances.

The phenomenon of globalization had led to a widening of the development gap between North and South.

Whatever the case, the region s populations are growing restless, and the gap between rulers and ruled is widening.

Indeed, the application of rigid solutions has contributed rather to a further widening of the gap between countries.

As these countries posted current account deficits, northern European countries accumulated current account surpluses, exposing a widening competitiveness gap.

More than 80 of the world s population live in countries where income differentials are widening.

Growth in food production is lower than consumption, resulting in a widening food gap and an increasing dependence on external sources of supply that causes significant financial problems to the low income countries of the region.

Improving access to vaccines is crucial to addressing this global inequity and reducing the widening gap between rich and poor.

The problem is that, although Africa's economic appeal is increasing, India and China are improving more quickly, widening the gap.

This gap in science and technology capacity between the developed countries and a majority of developing countries is generally still widening.

The most striking of those patterns is the widening of the gap between the rich North and the less privileged South.

The gap between rich and poor is widening at an alarming pace that disparity can not leave the international community indifferent.

The use of the 1 to 1 interim adjustment procedure would avoid further widening of income inversion.

Environmental deterioration is severe, the Gini index (the gap between rich and poor) is widening, and official corruption has not been curbed.

And sadly, the gap between dreams and reality is widening, and consequently deepening the feeling of loss, and hate for the country.

Without it, growth falters, job creation is insufficient, and widening income and wealth inequality undermines the social fabric.

The widening of the income gap between advanced and developing countries was distressing, and a strategy was needed to enable the developing countries to join in the global economy and participate in decision making in international financial and trade institutions.

Many Chinese seem to believe that market discipline will bring fair competition and contribute to closing the widening gap between rich and poor.

Moreover, the economy wide productivity gap between the US and Western Europe does not appear to be widening very rapidly, if at all.

The gap between the developed and developing world is widening, and we are all greatly concerned about increased poverty in many developing countries.

We are witnessing simultaneous global convergence (the narrowing of income, wealth, and knowledge gaps between countries) and local divergence (widening income, wealth, and knowledge gaps within countries).

A side effect of this has been the widening of income gaps, both within and between the WANA countries.

As a result of the adverse effects of globalization and the widening technology gap, developing countries were becoming more marginalized in the world economy.

Concerned by the ever widening North South gap in the flow of vital information as well as in acquisition and utilization of information technology,

In the circumstances, the international community should initiate bold and imaginative measures to bridge the widening gap between the rich and the poor nations.

However, despite such increases, the Secretary General reports that the gap between male and female literacy rates in Asia and Africa appears to be widening.

A major concern after the withdrawal of UNAMSIL would be a widening information gap, as currently there is no clear cut Government public information policy.

We urgently need to move from rhetoric to action, because the gap between the haves and the have nots is widening dramatically instead of narrowing.

Narrowing the gap with industrialized high income countries continues to be the world s main development challenge.

A widening gap in economic performance and political dominance is such a dismal prospect for the EU that it must not be allowed to become permanent.

117. The gap between the world apos s richest and poorest countries is widening, yet that shocking fact is more often than not greeted by indifference.

The major challenges of these decades acceleration of development, alleviation of poverty, narrowing the widening gap among countries need to be addressed on an urgent basis.