Global Inequality: 358 Billionaires vs. 2.3 Billion People
James Gustave Speth is administrator of the United Nations Development (UNDP).
The 1996 annual Human Development Report of the UNDP profiled the growing
income inequality globally, as well as within societies, since the end of
the Cold War. The UNDP chief outlines below the key lessons that emerge
from that report.
New York - Two widespread and dangerous myths
about the global economy have arisen to the status of conventional wisdom
in the aftermath of the Cold War. These myths need to be dispelled with
harsh facts if the world at large is going to make any future progress
on the path of "human" development
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