Poverty in Ireland worst in 17 western states, apart from the US
Ireland drops three places, to 20th, in the Human Development Index. Canada ranks first for the sixth year in a row
The world's top three billionaires have assets greater than the combined wealth of all least developed countries and their 600 million people
Internet access has risen from 100,000 in 1988 to 36 million last year, but is still available mainly to the educated and wealthy. A Bangladeshi needs eight years' wages to buy a computer, an American one month's.
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More than 80 countries have lower per capita incomes today than they did a decade ago