Richer people, who have least to gain from redistribution, are usually less keen on it than their poorer compatriots.
A series of studies in Brazil show that in urban areas richer people eat more fruit and less sugar, and do more exercise, than their poorer compatriots.
Cletus represents the Biafran middle class who lived through the deprivations of war but were not completely flattened as were their poorer compatriots.
The rich tended to have more children who survived than their poorer compatriots and this led to a kind of downward mobility as sons of merchants became small traders, sons of traders became craftsmen and so on.
Even so, the most eager offers are likely to come from familiar faces, who will be able to move their most demanding and affluent customers onto the 3G bands, leaving more room for their poorer compatriots behind them.
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The report published by Unesco shows how within countries there are deep inequalities in access to school - with the rich many times more likely to attend than their poorer compatriots.
Israel's leaders, he says, have yet to make the transition to thinking that their state should serve all its citizens, including its Arab minority.Mr Wertheimer is one of a number of Israeli entrepreneurs who have come to Nazareth in the hope of narrowing divisions between Jews and their much poorer Arab compatriots.
There is the proud young man of Pashtun blood born into Pakistan's Anglicized feudal and bureaucratic elite — an elite that disdained their poor, Urdu-speaking compatriots.
That richness of resources has not translated into an easy life for most of the country's people, however; indeed, much of Russia's history has been a grim tale of the very wealthy and powerful few ruling over a great mass of their poor and powerless compatriots.
