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R Inequalities in global spending are stark. The richest fifth of the world’s population are responsible for 77 percent of all spending by households on goods and services, and the poorest fifth a miniscule 1.5 percent – a distribution that has barely changed since the mid-1990s. For a household to have an adequate standard of living, it needs to spend money on food, clothing, housing, medical care, and education. However, many poor households are forced to spend a large share – an average of over 50 percent in many low-income countries – of their income on food alone. By contrast, in high-income, industrialized countries, expenditure on food might represent only 10 percent of household income, although the actual amount spent may be more than 10 times greater than the amount spent by those in poorer countries.

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