Poverty, wealth and inequality

Poverty, wealth and inequality

1. Economic changes

   • The same did not happen with developing countries, which were forced to adopt rigorous economic adjustment programs. Fund and the World Bank modified their strategy. Its action was no longer oriented to the development of specific projects in the region, but to ensure the payment of the external debt and the stability of the international financial system.

2. Wealth in the World

   • The gap between rich and poor has deepened in the midst of globalization. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , concentrate an overwhelming proportion of technology, capitals, markets and industrial production. The concentration also occurs in the use of energy sources. The rate of exploitation is so accelerated that in a few decades the planet will have run out. Even the use of air is concentrated.

3. Poverty and Indigence

   • In the world there is great poverty. Poverty can be recognized immediately, but it is not easy to define it.

4. How is poverty measured?

   • The poverty line has been defined in one dollar a day per person. In poor countries, 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day.

5. Societies of waste

   • The main cause of poverty and the concentration of world wealth is the inequality of opportunities for people in poor countries to access the knowledge society. South. Thus, the poor end up being victims of sub- consumption, while the rich are of the consumer waste.

6. Overcome Poverty

   • The social organization allows the people to move forward with their own forces, challenging the strength of those who monopolize the wealth in the countries and the great international capitals that concentrate the world's resources in very few hands. The unity of the poor and integration among the peoples of the Third World is a serious way to face poverty.

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