The startling news is that the chasm may be widening fast, as Britain's linguistic duds see less need for the gift of tongues and almost everybody else sees more.Indeed, the gap has been growing for a while.
Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International, said: "The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering, and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast.
"The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast," said Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International.
The budget deficit widened fast last year, from 4% to nearly 12% of GDP, partly due to a splurge in spending by the government in the run-up to the presidential and general elections of December 2012, which Mr Mahama's National Democratic Congress narrowly won.
And that wealth gap is widening fast, not shrinking, with approximately half of it accruing over the past decade.
It should be no surprise, then, that inequality is at historic highs in America, and widening fast.
"The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast," says Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam's executive director and a co-chair of this year's Davos meeting.
According to a new study by two groups based in Washington, the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the income gap between the have-lots and the have-nots is widening faster in Connecticut than in any other state.
The combination of expensive oil, the recent surge in the value of the dollar against the euro and tough competition for American manufacturers has actually prompted the deficit to widen faster than it did earlier this year.
The capability gap between the collection of genome data and the interpretation of it is widening faster than ever.
