track, the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution is lagging behind in the EU's recovery. This is likely caused by the …

. Income inequality also decreased, as income growth has been primarily pro-poor in recent years. Despite variations across …

intergenerational mobility act as a brake on poverty reduction and as a result poverty is high for an upper middle-income country … were set aside for black South Africans along ethnic lines during apartheid. Third, high levels of income polarization are … manifested in very high levels of chronic poverty, a few high-income earners and a relatively small middle class. Fourth, the …

between urban and rural areas. Although Bucharest has already exceeded the EU average income per capita, and many secondary …