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Inequality

The 1971 Declaration stated that Commonwealth countries displayed ‘every stage of economic development from poor developing nations to wealthy industrialised nations’. 1 This may be illustrated in three types of measurement. First, there is population. At the close of the 1980s only five members (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria and Britain) had populations exceeding 50 million. Eight had between ten and twenty-five millions, but more than half were in the categories of ‘small’, ‘mini’ or ‘micro’ states. There were nine micro states, with populations of less than 100,000; six mini states w…