Poor infrastructure tied with low salaries turns into backwardness on a digital level.

ACS's employees are but the first Africans to benefit from the hottest trend in the global economy outsourcing, or the shift of service jobs from high wage to low wage countries.

In any case, the Chinese wage story is much more complicated than it might seem. Nominal wages may increase, while real wages stagnate, owing to higher inflation.

In any case, the Chinese wage story is much more complicated than it might seem.

While completely legal, studies suggest that Wal Mart s labor policies exploit regulatory loopholes that, for example, allow it to sidestep the burden of healthcare costs for many workers (Wal Mart provides healthcare coverage to less than half its workers).

First, there is the matter of its effect on low wage workers and smaller scale retailers.

The gap between US rhetoric and policies has widened.

This is bad news for reducing income inequality, as capital gains and high end wages may grow much faster.

Closing the US Europe Technology Gap

The gaps between the northern European countries and the US are the most telling.

The gap between the rulers and the ruled widens everyday.

Meanwhile, wage growth remains strong and uninterrupted.

Worse yet, the gap between Muslim countries and the rest of the world is widening.

Finally, multinational companies that had moved some operations to China from the United States or other high wage countries are now moving back.

When we group chimpanzees together with, say, snakes, as animals, we imply that the gap between us and chimpanzees is greater than the gap between chimpanzees and snakes.

Wonks call it a mileage based user fee.

Those with access to finance appear to be capable of resisting the urge to locate production in poor low wage parts of the world (China aside).

If Germany is to maintain its economic dominance, it will have to do something far harder than keeping wages in check or restructuring hierarchies.

Poland now has a huge gap between the levels of perceived and actual corruption.

Moreover, Saudi Arabia s breach with Hezbollah is not a one time occurrence.

At the start of the year the gap was running at between 40,000 and 50,000.

And across the world, the gaps between rich and poor are growing.

That is, the per capita GDP gap between China and developed countries essentially reflects the gap between them in terms of overall technological and industrial achievement.

Efforts to restrict people s movement between countries expose the soft underbelly of globalization the deepening gap between countries mean incomes.

Lower trade barriers will make locating production in the poor low wage parts of the world irresistible to those who have access to finance.

There is a deep disconnect in American politics between scientific knowledge and political decisions.

In Romania, the gap between what people say and what people do remains a chasm.

My own country, the US, shows the largest gap between promises and reality.

The Great Disconnect

Moreover, it is clear that northern European countries could help to close the competitiveness gap more rapidly by encouraging faster wage growth.

If people feel rich and enjoy growing wages and appreciating assets, they are less inclined to cannibalize other spending when commodity consumption becomes more expensive.

As neither Germany s unions nor its welfare state would accept falling wages, the result was higher unemployment and slower growth.

The growing gap between mortgage debts and house prices will continue to increase the rate of defaults.

In our globalized world, the potential divorce between elections and democracy has assumed a new dimension.

Developed countries, meanwhile, have an opportunity to narrow the gap between average and best practices, and to avoid the danger of secular stagnation.

Dealing with the deficit has required difficult decisions from reforming the welfare system and increasing the state pension age to controlling public sector pay.

Break to Avoid a Breakup

Sarkozy s Secret Rupture

For example, the gap between Spain and Germany in terms of cost efficiency is probably more than 20 .

And, everywhere, it is likely to be another year in which the gap between the haves and the have nots will widen.

However, in our current era of political correctness, outright separation between the north and the south remains unmentionable.

But what is of real concern is the gap between the economy's potential and its actual performance.

This will widen the already large gap between the country s haves and have nots.

The range between the poorest and the richest countries in the world is a factor of more than 100.

As a result, Mexico s income gap with the US and Canada has barely narrowed.