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30 MARCH 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai teenager in a "cosplay" outfit talks to a girl in the Central World Mall in Bangkok, one of the most upscale malls in Bangkok. Thailand's economic expansion since the 1970 has dramatically reduced both the amount of poverty and the severity of poverty in Thailand. At the same time, the gap between the very rich in Thailand and the very poor has grown so that income disparity is greater now than it was in 1970. Thailand scores .42 on the "Ginni Index" which measures income disparity on a scale of 0 (perfect income equality) to 1 (absolute inequality in which one person owns everything). Sweden has the best Ginni score (.23), Thailand's score is slightly better than the US score of .45. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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30 MARCH 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai teenager in a "cosplay" outfit talks to a girl in the Central World Mall in Bangkok, one of the most upscale malls in Bangkok. Thailand's economic expansion since the 1970 has dramatically reduced both the amount of poverty and the severity of poverty in Thailand. At the same time, the gap between the very rich in Thailand and the very poor has grown so that income disparity is greater now than it was in 1970. Thailand scores .42 on the "Ginni Index" which measures income disparity on a scale of 0 (perfect income equality) to 1 (absolute inequality in which one person owns everything). Sweden has the best Ginni score (.23), Thailand's score is slightly better than the US score of .45. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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