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HEALTH
& ENVIRONMENT
The
gap between Rich and Poor is widening
Per capita income of the poorest 20 per cent
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Note: Values are in 1993 International
dollars using purchasing power parity.
Source: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 1996 (UNDP,
New York, 1996), p.13. |
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 "Fate has allowed humanity such a
pitifully meagre coverlet that in pulling
it over one part of the world, another
has to be left bare"
Rabindranath Tagore,
Nobel Prize for Literature 1913
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