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New Zealand income gap among widest in OECD
Oct 26 2008, Byron Clark

A recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report titled ‘Growing Unequal Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries’ has shown that New Zealand is one of the most unequal nations in the OECD, with an income gap...

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