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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