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6 5 According to the World Bank, low‐and‐middle income countries had about USD $6,900 gross national income per capita, (2011 Purchase Power Parity) in 2009 and USD $10,843 in 2017. World Development Indicators database, World Bank, at https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD?start=2009 (accessed December 2018).
7 6 C.K. “The gap between poor and rich neighbourhoods is growing” The Economist (November 13, 2018) at https://www.economist.com/democracy‐in‐america/2018/11/13/the‐gap‐between‐poor‐and‐rich‐neighbourhoods‐is‐growing (accessed December 2018).
8 7 Ibid.
9 8 World Bank Development Indicators Database, April 19, 2010 revision.
10 9 Alex Whiting, “Richest 62 People Own Same as Half of World’s Population: Oxfam,” Reuters (January 18, 2016) at https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN0UW0DQ?fbclid=IwAR3HHRmVm6CJLRHbqAMQN7372gzokSnq‐9TAJ9PHYVXEL0Bnxp6ZBVOvV6E (accessed December 2018).
11 10 International Labour Organization, Global Wage Report 2014/2015: Wages and Income Inequality, section 7.2, p. 23, at http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—dgreports/—dcomm/—publ/documents/publication/wcms:324678.pdf (accessed July 2015).
12 11 Christopher Ingraham “The Richest 1 Percent Now Owns more of the Country’s Wealth than at any Time in the past 50 Years” The Washington Post (December 6, 2017) at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/06/the‐richest‐1‐percent‐now‐owns‐more‐of‐the‐countrys‐wealth‐than‐at‐any‐time‐in‐the‐past‐50‐years/ (accessed December 2018).
13 12 Porsha Pan “Hurun Report Releases China Rich List 2017 in Association with 36G” The Hurun Research Institute (October 12, 2017) at http://www.hurun.net/EN/Article/Details?num=5A320E03FD31 (accessed December 2018).
14 13 Heather Long and Leslie Shapiro. “Does $60,000 make you Middle‐class or Wealthy on Planet Earth?” The Washington Post (August 20, 2018) at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/20/does‐make‐you‐middle‐class‐or‐wealthy‐planet‐earth/ (accessed December 2018).
15 14 World Bank Development Indicators Database, December 17, 2018 revision.
16 15 China increased its per capita GDP about tenfold from $440 in 1980 to $4,475 in 2002 (in international prices), while India’s per capita GDP rose from $670 in 1980 to $2,570 in 2002. World Bank, World Development Report 2005 (New York: World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 27.
17 16 United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 (New York: United Nations, 2010), p. 6.
18 17 Ibid., p. 7.
19 18 United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014, p. 4, at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2014%20MDG%20report/MDG%202014%20English%20web.pdf (accessed July 2015).
20 19 The World Bank “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed: World Bank” (September 19, 2018) at https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press‐release/2018/09/19/decline‐of‐global‐extreme‐poverty‐continues‐but‐has‐slowed‐world‐bank ( “Over the last 25 years, more than a billion people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty, and the global poverty rate is now lower than it has ever been in recorded history. This is one of the greatest human achievements of our time.”).
21 20 “Global Poverty: A Fall to Cheer”, The Economist, (March 3, 2012), at http://www.economist.com/node/21548963 (accessed July 2015).
22 21 United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010, p. 7
23 22 The World Bank “Poverty & Equity Data Portal” at http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/CHN (accessed December 2018).
24 23 UNDP, Human Development Report 2004 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 129.
25 24 United Nations, “World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015, Update as of mid‐2015*” (May 19, 2015) at http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_archive/2015wesp_myu_en.pdf (accessed December 2018).
26 25 United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014, p. 4, at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2014%20MDG%20report/MDG%202014%20English%20web.pdf (accessed July 2015).
27 26 Ibid., pp. 5, 12.
28 27 World Health Organization, “Global hunger continues to rise, new UN report says 821 million people now hungry and over 150 million children stunted, putting hunger eradication goal at risk,” (September 11, 2018) at https://www.who.int/news‐room/detail/11‐09‐2018‐global‐hunger‐continues‐to‐rise‐‐‐new‐un‐report‐says (accessed December 2018).
29 28 World Bank, World Development Report 2014: Risk and Opportunity (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2014), p. 5.
30 29 United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014, pp. 4–5; UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs, Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, at http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/panel_population.htm; World Bank, “Energy,” at http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/energy (both accessed July 2015); World Bank, World Development Report 2010 (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2010), p. xx.
31 30 United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014, pp. 4–5; UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs, Population Division,