published Dec 13th 2016, 12:19 pm, by Sangwon Yoon (Bloomberg) —It’s not just President-elect Donald Trump who’s bent on military build-up. From Europe all the way to China, the next decade will be marked by an increase in global defense spending amid rising feuds and pockets of instability, according to IHS

©2015 Bloomberg News NOMKDY6S972B (Bloomberg Business) — The gap between the rich and the poor has been growing across the world. But there is a handful of countries in the Asia-Pacific region where it has decreased, and it isn’t just the Piketty effect. The population-weighted mean Gini coefficient for the entire region rose