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- HANDOUT - Globalisation-
the cause of the gap between wealth and poverty? Dates and
facts about the gap between wealth and poverty: Historical facts: - Globalisation (started about the of time of
exploration) = leading driving force for the Industrial Revolution/I.R.
pushed procession of Globalisation - Success of I.R. was only possible with
exploitation of the poor countries - Prosperities of the industrial revolution => Rising requirements of resources for the
industrialist and industrial countries => Aggravation of exploitation of the developing
countries => Rising gap between wealth and poverty Development of the ratio
between the richest and poorest countries: Year: Ratio: 1850 3 to 1 1950 35
to 1 1992 72
to 1 The World today: Definition poverty: Absolute poverty = status
of having less than one US Dollar a day to fulfil the basic requirements. => 16 % of the global population lives in absolute poverty 70 % of the global population lives in
poverty Economic situation wealth and
poverty: - 1960: richest 20 % has 30 times the income of the
poorest 20% - 1997: richest 20 % has 74 times the income of the
poorest 20% - 2001: the 497 registered billionaires own a
combined wealth of about 1.5 trillion dollars = more than the GNP of: All the nations of
Sub-Saharan Africa or North Africa or the oil-rich regions of the Unequal arrangement of the
global goods: - 20% of the population in the developed nations,
consume 86% of the world’s goods => resources of four planets are needed
to establish same living standard as the richest third of the world enjoys
today - 12% of the world’s population (high and medium
developed countries) uses 85 percent of its water - 46 percent of the food in Possible solutions: - ignore the facts and let humanity destroy itself - accept the facts and realise adapt living
standards to the resources of the world and stop wasting them to make a fair
arrangement of the global goods possible by
Katharina Gausling, Lukas Thesker,
Sebastian Erning and Konstantin Skibinski Percent of the population of
a region who lives in poverty
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