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Scenario of inequality
The scenario of socioeconomic inequality worldwide, reaffirmed in various reports issued by international organizations like the UN, FAO, ILO, World Bank and others, is most unfortunate: one in three people do not have access to electricity , one in five does not have access to drinking water, one in six is illiterate. One in seven adults and one child in three suffers from malnutrition.
Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira
Every five seconds a child dies of hunger in the world, one person in every seven suffers from chronic hunger. Nineteen children under five years old die every five minute victims of pneumonia; 500,000 mothers every year die in childbirth due to inadequate medical care; 5 million children every year do not complete five years of age, do not enjoy five years of life.
Just over 300 million people worldwide have a life expectancy of less than 60 years, partly due to poor diets and on behalf of pathologies resulting from this lack.
Thirty- five percent of the world population does not have enough energy and protein in the diet. Worldwide, there are two billion people who are anemic, including 5.5 million who inhabit the countries of advanced capitalism.
As a result of chronic malnutrition, about 500 million children located in Latin America, Asia and Africa are at risk of permanent sequels in their bodies over the next 15 years.
It is never too late to remember that we inhabit a world where the daily cost to feed a child with all the vitamins and nutrients needed only costs 25 US cents.
According to NGOs (Save the Children), the death of 2 million children a year could be prevented if malnutrition were approached correctly.
However, there exists pervasive exclusion, segregation, separation among peers, making inequality an incurable wound. 20 % of the world population – or one in five people – is excluded from participation in the consumption of food and other goods.
According to the Human Development Report (RDH-2013), the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), about 1.57 billion people (30 % of the population of 104 countries surveyed in the report cited) are in a situation of multidimensional poverty (it is said to possess multidimensional multiple definitions and ways of measuring it). Brazilians who suffer from multidimensional poverty are 2.7 % of the population.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that 48 % of the 12.5 million children located in Latin America engaged in agriculture or family subsistence.
The Report issued by the International Labour Organization (ILO) , attests that the number of poor people increased between 2010 and 2011 in 14 of the 26 developed economies analyzed, including the United States, France, Spain and Denmark.
Also according to the ILO, there are more than 200 million unemployed persons around the world. The expectation is that by the end of 2015, this number will reach 208 million.
From the data in the report “Credit Suisse Wealth Report 2013”, 0.7 % of the world population concentrates 41 % of global wealth, while 50 % of adults worldwide have 1 % of the wealth. The global wealth reached this year a record U.S. $ 241 trillion.
On one hand the exuberance of billionaires and on the other, the drama of the hungry. Just the United States focuses 37 of the top 100 billionaires in the world. In Russia there are another 11. In Germany there are six, while India and France has five, four respectively.
The joint fortune of the three greatest billionaires of the planet (Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and Amancio Ortega) reaches at 200.3 billion dollars.
While the wealth of the privileged is growing, the World Bank study elaborates by pointing out that to eliminate extreme poverty would require U.S. $169 billion per year (0.25 % of world GDP) or nine times less than is spent on military expenses in the world, whose frightening figure comes to $1.6 trillion.
It appears that expenses on military equipment are the priority. And thus walks Humankind. What a sad world this is!
Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira is an economist, professor and specialist in International Politics.
13 Comments on "Scenario of inequality"
J-Gav on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 12:31 am
I’m not sure what good it does to bemoan this state of affairs without naming names as to those primarily responsible for prolonging it. Boeing, G.E., Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, JP Morgan, Goldman-Sachs, Citi, Wells Fargo, BoFA, UBS, Banque de France, Deutsche Bank, RBS, The ‘City’ in London, BIS, (to name a few) etc etc. They all have a major stake in keeping people fearful of ‘the enemy’ (called ‘terrorism’ today, used to be called ‘communism’). These are not charity organizations. Without war they make less money ….
Kenz300 on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 1:51 am
The worlds poorest people are having the most children.
They have not figured out the connection between their poverty and family size.
If you can not provide for yourself you can not provide for a child.
Access to family planning services needs to be available to all that want it.
BillT on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 1:53 am
World GDP in 2012:$72,000,000,000,000.00
World population: 7,000,000,000.
Equally divided wealth = $ 10,000.00 US per person or About the US median income for that year for a family of 4.
There is no reason for poverty in today’s world except for greed, bigotry, politics and religion.
action on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 3:28 am
But lets keeping bringing babies into the world right, it’s so wonderful. Making babies is a pride thing, it doesn’t come about from thinking about the baby’s future, rather it comes about from wanting to see a part of yourself replicated, and wanting a cute wittle baby to go with a cute wittle doggy. It’s selfish in my opinion.
Then there’s the whole birth control issue in the third world, but hey, can you blame them – I’d be fucking too, and condoms suck.
noobtube on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 4:37 am
It’s always the brown people’s fault.
But, wait, brown people are not wiping out the world’s habitats, animal life, soil, and oceans.
You can thank the racists for that… born of Europe, and infiltrating lands in the Western Hemisphere.
The population problem is with each new mouth that the Europeans and (especially) Americans bring into this world.
Without the Euro/American burden, the population “problem” disappears.
At least until China.
J.R. on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 5:39 am
A child born into the United States will use 90 times the resources of an African.
The poverty is deliberate – imposed on nations by corruption (and capitalism).
You can’t “blame” brown people if they’ve never even had a chance, which many don’t.
The disparity actually rests on our shoulders – as we take what we want from them, leaving them nothing in return.
Example: Shell Oil – Nigeria. Thousands of such example exist. Exploitation and greed are the trademarks of Empire.
“Survival of the fittest” takes on a whole new meaning when you add “capitalism” to the definition.
BillT on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 9:11 am
noobtube, you are so correct! The 600 million ‘whites’ of the West/1st world consume more than the rest of the world or the other 6,400,000,000 people combined.
If you think I am wrong, do your own research.
You have the greatest education/information system in the history of the world at your command and in front of you as you read this. Yes, it takes time and some intelligent thought, but it is eye opening, mind expanding, and as chilling as any horror story. It is called reality. (Not to be confused with the ‘reality’ from the Ministry of Propaganda, the MSM/NSA.)
Norm on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 10:38 am
I dunno about this, Bill & boobtube. In defense of the american european elites, the reason we pumpin gas into the 747, is cause we was smart enough to make that 747 and fly it around. so why feel guilty about it? meanwhile, the uncivilized starving huddled masses, you really think they wont deforest the earth better & faster? I thinkin they will, they already do that. Might take ’em a little longer cause they don’t have a dozer. But a buncha barbarians with nothing but spears and machetes, they will knock down the whole jungle, if there is enough of them, which there is. So when you keep that in mind, buncha civilized ‘elite’ american europeans busy turtle-waxing their 747 on the weekend and pumping gas into it, really doesn’t look so bad from my perspective.
Stilgar on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 10:42 am
How many more people would there be in the world if all of them were adequately fed?
It’s a good question because my wife and I decided some years ago to help pay for two 3rd world kids via Children’s International. One year after beginning payments on the boy in Ecuador they had their 4th child, and a year and a half later the family of the girl in Columbia had their 3rd. So did we indirectly bring into the world two more poor kids?
wildbourgman on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 3:27 pm
Stilgar what your saying is the “feed the children” fund causes there to be even more chidren to feed?
Throwing money at the problem is not the answer, it causes crazy feedback loops. In the west we have the same problem with our welfare state. It’s funny how many of the people that argue for environmental sustainability also clamor for practices of wealth redistribution and/or a robust welfare state that promotes a more unsustainable world.
Kenz300 on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 3:28 pm
Support family planning services………
Birth Control Pictures: Types, Side Effects, Costs, & Effectiveness
http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/ss/slideshow-birth-control-options?ecd=wnl_day_071113&ctr=wnl-day-071113_hdln_1&mb=dtfWIHfXZxtqE9pudELmLeHnVev1imbCq%2f0xB3s74mA%3d
BillT on Sun, 17th Nov 2013 2:29 am
Norm, your bigotry is showing … Your 747 example is telling. So, since the west developed the nuke, we should go around nuking people because we can? Same difference. Did you ever consider that the 747 is not a good thing? Most tech is killing us. Only the blind or the tech addicts think otherwise. I see the 747s being grounded and all other jets, before 2030.
moli on Sun, 17th Nov 2013 8:15 am
noob tube . bill jr. thanx. . . ur input is so valued. . and it helps many of us to keep focus