Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Defence Historical Service, Structural Adjustment, World Trade Organization
3 Apr 2017
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Growing economic, political, and social interconnectedness among societies throughout the world that has eroded the boundaries that separate countries to create what some people call global village. Ware the positive and negative effects of globalization on health? o. Positive: spread of knowledge and information and accessing culture: negative: A few stats: over half of the world wealth is just own by 1% of the world"s population. Allows to get a grasp of what"s happening here 1% are the bourgeoisie. 1% of the richest people in the amounts to 110 trillion dollars, which is 65% of the bottom of the total. Bottom half of the world as amongst 85 humans. Over 3 billion people live on less then . Gdp of poorest 48 nations in the world is equal to the wealth of the richest 3 people in the world. 1 billion pepople entering the 21st century are unable to read or sign their own names.
