Income inequality has increased within countries in recent decades, while narrowing across countries. This means that the gap between the richest and poorest within a country has widened, but the gap between the richest and poorest countries has decreased.

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Income equality has

A) narrowed within countries but increased across countries.
B) increased within countries but narrowed across countries.
C) decreased in Australia as manufacturing has increased.
D) not changed in the advanced economies over the past 50 years.
E) increased in developing economies as manufacturing has decreased.

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