This analysis revealed one particularly strong pattern: countries where income inequality increased more also suffered slower growth. This relationship is shown graphically in Chart 3, which plots ...

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Inequality combined with negative growth hit the consumption of the lower percentiles of the population very hard, from zero up to the 60th percentile in South Africa.