In reality, income convergence took place only for a small number of countries, but this did not happen in the case of many others, despite the fact that countries across the globe had opened up their trade and financial systems to the global market.
实际上，收入趋同只在少数国家发生，而在其他许多国家并没有出现，尽管在全球范围内各国都已向全球市场开入了其贸易和金融体系。