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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Weronika Strzyżyńska

Growing gulf between rich and poor countries ‘recipe for much darker future’, says UN

Children sit and play on the remains of a tank, at the river port in Renk, South Sudan
South Sudan came in last place in 2021 and its score only worsened. Photograph: Sam Mednick/AP

The gulf between rich and poor countries continues to grow, according to the UN, furthering the reversal of a 20-year trend where the gap steadily shrank until 2020.

The latest human development report found that although each of the 38 OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries has recovered from the Covid pandemic, only half of the least-developed countries have done so.

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