China's Great Wall Of Inequality: How A Booming Economy Is Creating A Deeply Divided Society

globalpost.com — When it comes to development, China has gotten the bad along with the good. At the same time that it has brought millions of people out of poverty and benefited from US outsourcing, the country's wealth gap has widened so much it is now one of the largest social problems the country faces. As I found in my reporting in Shanghai — to be described in an upcoming story — even workers who moved from the countryside and know that their lot has improved over their parents’ generation feel limited, even stifled, by China’s deeply unequal society.

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