Development and humanitarian action

Steering globalisation

Over the last two decades globalisation has gone hand in hand with major economic progress. Hundreds of millions of women and men have thus managed to rise out of poverty in India and China, as well as in the rest of Asia, in Africa and in Latin America.

Yet at the same time, inequalities between countries and between individuals within countries have increased. New sources of crises and tensions are emerging, to which the responses of the international community have shown their limits. Food security is still not guaranteed for a billion human beings. Global economic growth is taking directions that do not ensure the planet’s major balances: this is now a well-evidenced fact as far as the environment is concerned, and the recent crisis has shown that it also holds true for finance.

Worldwide, it is becoming clear that the benefits of globalisation are coming up against a lack of governance and collective action.

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