trickle down
Submitted by antarchi on July 6, 2008 - 12:41.
During the 1980s - what was called the lost decade of development - from every $100 worth of global economic growth, around $2.20 found its way to people living below the absolute poverty line. A decade later that had shrunk to just $0.60c, and the actual mean income of those living under $1 per day in Africa also fell.