Povertà e disuguaglianza

The actual number of poor people has increased over the last 30 years. The percentage of poor and extremely poor people, over the total population, however, has decreased. This is often assigned to the virtues of globalization, although such an improvement is mainly due to the performance of China and India, two countries that have not followed the standard prescriptions of globalization. Moreover, poverty increased in percentage terms in Sub-Saharian Africa. Moreover, if we look at inequality (a variable that even the Millennium Development Goals has ignored), we see that it has increased dramatically between developed and less developed countries. Increasing inequality undermines the social capital of a country and produces negative effects also in economic terms.