1. Does the gap between rich and poor countries widened?
The models that were in place since World War II collapsed and the laissez-faire neo-liberal capitalism became the dominant ideology. ... But even if that is true, when the incomes of the very poor first start growing at a faster rate than rich countries' incomes, the absolute (dollar) increases in incomes of the poor will still be smaller for many years than the absolute increases for the rich, even though the relative gap is closing. ... Apart from the very large enterprises and the multinationals indicating a more important control on their part, small and medium-size enterprises are...
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