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infant mortality is typically much higher in the countryside than in the cities. And, in many parts of the world women still face many barriers that deprive their families and communities of valuable economic contributions.
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8.Other factors are also at work. One, for example, is the extent to which people in many poorer countries work informally, with no written contracts and little in the way of terms and conditions of employment. In Mexico and Brazil, around half of jobs are in the informal sector, a level that rises to around 80% in India and Indonesia. Such jobs contribute to inequality in a number of ways for one thing, they pay less than formal jobs. They also rarely offer workers opportunities for training and promotion. And
they are unpredictable, meaning workers may find themselves without an income at very short notice.
9 All of the flows that constitute globalization can have some impact on income inequality, but perhaps none more so than technology and information flows. That's not so surprising-
technology has long had an impact on people's livelihoods. Take the Luddites, textile workers in 19th century England who smashed up newly installed machinery. The Luddites are sometimes portrayed as having been almost irrationally fearful of technology. In fact, they had good reasons to oppose it. They were craftsmen who had invested time in developing their skills. As the Industrial Revolution dawned, they didn't want to see those skills thrown into the dustbin of progress.10. Looking at the current state of the race between technology and education, it's often argued that technology is now in the lead and that education is failing to keep up. The result is that
people with lower levels of education are in growing danger of seeing their jobs replaced by technology. On the other hand, people with high-level skills are well positioned to put new
technologies to good use and are enjoying increasing returns to their education.
Next Question
1) What is the main idea of this passage?
A. It mainly describes the consequences of the "shifting wealth".
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B. It carefully delivers the reasons of income inequality.
C. It briefly compares the financial situations between the developed and developing countries.
D. It focuses on the technology factor in changing job market.
2) What does "come into play" in paragraph 3 mean?A. Play a character in several special factors.
B. Just for fun and nothing serious.
C. Start to happen or have an effect.
D. Come and play something.
3) What does The Economist try to say when it refers to the emerging economies?
A. Its roughest time seems to be over.
Economies in a number of emerging economies have grown, slowing this change in global wealth.
4) Which information can be inferred from the number of informal jobs in Brazil and India?
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BCD There's nothing to worry about the economies of the emerging economies.Many emerging nations are facing a return to poverty.
