Liu has sounded themes of economicdisparity on the campaign trail, noting that the income gap between the city's rich and poor has grown in recent years, and he also has emphasized his grasp of the city's finances as comptroller and a trained actuary.
The lack of educational opportunities for socially marginalised communities is a clear indicator of the disparity between economic growth and social well-being.
If that was why women worked, it made perfect economic sense: because of the disparity in pay and career opportunity between men and women, virtually the only way a woman could improve her economic situation was to marry.
Sarkozy said that there was a growing disparity between the enjoyment of everyday life and strong economic growth, and he believed there should be a way to include a metric for happiness alongside the more traditional measures of growth.
One reason for the disparity: competitiveness, as defined by a ranking of countries done annually by the World Economic Forum in Geneva (the same group that holds the high-powered Davos meeting).