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A 14 page paper which examines whether poverty is
increasing due to globalization. Bibliography lists 21 sources.
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not; building larger economic, social, and political organizations; discovering, using, and sometimes destroying the resources of the planet; and generating new knowledge and technologies" (D?az-Bonilla; Robinson, 2001). It is
just this type of human endeavor that "has led to the emergence of empires, with the ebb and flow over the centuries of explorers, crusaders, missionaries, merchants, and colonists. The
powerful wave of globalization associated with modern economic growth in the second half of the 1800s and early 1900s brought the level of world integration to a new peak, with
convergence in commodity and, to a lesser extent, factor prices" In many ways it also "ended in pain and disintegration with two world wars and a global economic depression between
them. The world emerged in the 1950s divided both politically and militarily" and soon "another pervasive wave of economic, political, and social integration was rolling forward" (D?az-Bonilla; Robinson, 2001). This
was globalization. But, in the midst of globalization lies an ever present threat, poverty. "At the start of a new century, poverty remains a global problem of huge proportions.
Of the worlds 6 billion people, 2.8 billion live on less than $2 a day and 1.2 billion on less than $1 a day" (The World Bank Group, 2001). In
terms of infant mortality we can see that "Eight out of every 100 infants do not live to see their fifth birthday. Nine of every 100 boys and 14 of
every 100 girls who reach school age do not attend school" (The World Bank Group, 2001). In addition, when we truly look around we note that, "Poverty is also evident
in poor peoples lack of political power and voice and in their extreme vulnerability to ill health, economic dislocation, personal violence and natural disasters. And the scourge of HIV/AIDS, the
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