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Is This What we Want from A Global
Economy?
► Up to 2.5 billion
people lack adequate food, clean water, sanitation, housing, medical care,
education, transportation and energy sources.
► More than 40 poor countries are unable to invest in basic human
services because of their debt service payments to banks.
► 37 million people are out of work in the industrial countries alone.
► The 225 richest people in the world own assets worth over $1
trillion, equaling the annual income of the poorest 47% of the world’s
population.
King County has 11 of the world’s billionaires.
Sources; United Nations; Human
Development Report, 1998 / United for a fair Economy, 1999
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