globalisation
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Today's estimated world population stands at 6 billion people and this figure is expected to rise to somewhere in the region of 7.5 billion over the next twenty years. Of today's total world population 3 billion live on less than two dollars per day and of that 3 billion half of them actually live on half that amount again.
"Globalisation is about much more than trade. It is about communicating with an infinity of new people"
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2000/lecture4.shtml)
With the introduction of globalisation many experts in the field consider that globalisation simply allows the rich to get richer and the poor to become poorer. However there is mounting evidence that shows inequalities in global income and poverty are decreasing and globalisation has been the main reason behind this turnaround...