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Wealth and Globalization. Globalisation - the increased integration of the
world economy - stands accused of worsening the condition ...
... on a purely competitive basis the opportunity to reduce costs and hence accumulate
wealth could be an advantageous effect that globalization generates. ...
... and trade liberalization have produced an unstoppable movement toward economic
globalization, resulting on the modernization and growing wealth of the ...
... that ratchet up inequality and distribute new wealth unevenly — contribute to the
enormous growth of slums."[5] Various aspects of globalization are seen as ...
... national politics. Globalization creates new markets and wealth, even as
it causes widespread suffering, disorder, and unrest. It is ...
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Globalisation - the increased integration of the world economy - stands accused of worsening the condition of the poor in developing countries. Multinational corporations frequently appear as villains in this scenario. However the United Nations Human Development Report tells a rather different story. It shows that although much of the world still lives in horrific poverty, the situation is improving.
Between 1975 and 1998, average real incomes in developing countries almost doubled – from $1,300 to $2,500. Between 1990 and 1998, the number of under-nourished people fell by approximately 40 million, and infant mortality declined by more than 10 per cent. Despite a rising world population, the number of people living on less than $1 per day fell by 120 million between 1993 and 1998, and by 200 million since 1980. This represents the first absolute decline ever in the number of those living in extreme poverty.
These improvements have not, however, occurred uniformly. To give just one indicator, in 1960, average incomes in East Asia were one-tenth of those in the OECD countries. By 1998, they had risen to nearly one-fifth of the OECD level, even though OECD-country incomes had themselves increased massively. In Sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, incomes in 1960 were slightly higher than in East Asia – at one-ninth of the OECD level. By 1998 they were just one-eighteenth of OECD average income.
Research for the World Bank shows that the most significant factor explaining such differentials is the degree to which countries have been integrated into the global economy. East Asian countries, by and large, have successfully integrated into the global economy. Sub-Saharan African countries, by and large, have not.
It is the countries that have integrated into the world economy (the globalisers) that have grown richer. Anti-globalisation protesters respond that GDP is not everything, and that globalisation has actually reduced living...
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