SOC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mortality Rate, Soybean
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Introduction: globalization has produced winners and losers , for most countries, the human development index has improved, most, but not all, of the gains have been made in the world"s high income countries. ~20: the gap between the world"s richest and poorest nations (and people) is greater than it"s ever been and is getting larger. There were 1210 billionaires, and they are worth about 4. 5 trillion dollars. In 2011, only ten nations had a net worth of 4. 5 billion dollars. We have a fairly signi cant amount of families who still live in extreme poverty (live on. In 1990 we had 43. 1% of people into world living in extreme poverty. In 2008, we went down to 22. 4: facts and figures. Life in rich and poor countries: hunger: not when you"re hungry for food; we are talking about chronic hunger. People not having enough calories in their bodies to keep them strong. 1/3 of the world"s poor suffer from chronic hunger.
