Emily Low, 78, sits on a bed in the combined living room and bedroom of her one-room Housing Development Board (HDB) flat in Singapore November 2, 2007. Income inequality is nothing new in free-market Singapore, but two years of blistering economic growth and a government policy of attracting wealthy expatriates have created a new class of super-rich, while a string of price increases for everything from bread to bus fares have made life harder for the poor. Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 55 months ago

Emily Low, 78, sits on a bed in the combined living room and bedroom of her one-room Housing Development Board (HDB) flat in Singapore November 2, 2007. Income inequality is nothing new in free-market Singapore, but two years of blistering economic growth and a government policy of attracting wealthy expatriates have created a new class of super-rich, while a string of price increases for everything from bread to bus fares have made life harder for the poor.

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