Revisiting globalization
According to a new UN report to be released next week, current practices of globaliziation are widening gaps between the economic haves and have-nots. They’re calling for a redefinition that better addresses at least some of the follwing global realities
188 million people glbally are unemployed
1.1 billion people live in absolute poverty worldwide
246 million children worldwide are enslaved by adults in farm, military and sex labor
Women’s jobs have been more negatively impacted by globalization than men’s
The US leads in economic gap widening with 1% earning 17% of the gross income
