"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

Debt, Poverty, World, Years

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"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

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"It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest."

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"My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy."

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"So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers."

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"But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living."

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"But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization."

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"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."

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"There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations."

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