Growing inequality or equality?

With all the talk of increasing inequality, I following the following bit of a New York Times blog post entitled When Cheap Foreign Labor Gets Less Cheap interesting:

in Asia, inflation-adjusted average wages have about doubled since 2000. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, average wages almost tripled

The global poor, at least in certain large, highly populated areas of the planet, seem to be becoming significantly better off financially over the past few years.

In a world with low communication and transportation costs some global levelling of wages seems more or less inevitable, and the Western poor are still a lot better off than many of their foreign counterparts.