From poverty to power - Oxfam-Québec
From poverty to power - Oxfam-Québec From poverty to power - Oxfam-Québec
PART ONE
FROM POVERTY TO POWERTHE UNEQUAL WORLDMassive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges ofour times – times in which the world boasts breathtaking advancesin science, technology, industry, and wealth accumulation – that theyhave to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils.NELSON MANDELA, LONDON, 2005From cradle to grave, a person’s life chances are dominated by theextraordinary levels of inequality that characterise the modern world.A girl born in Norway will almost certainly live to old age. 1 If she isborn in Sierra Leone, however, she has a one in four chance of dyingbefore her fifth birthday. A Norwegian girl can expect to go to a goodschool, followed by university, and to be healthy and cared for rightthrough to old age. In Sierra Leone only two in three girls start schoolat all, and many drop out along the way, deterred by having to find‘user fees’ levied by the school or by the low standards of education, orforced to stay home to care for their brothers and sisters, or to go outto work to feed the family. Only one in four women is able to read andwrite. University is an impossible dream.The extent of global inequality is breathtaking. The income of theworld’s 500 richest billionaires exceeds that of its poorest 416 millionpeople. 2 Every minute of every day, somewhere in the developingworld, a woman dies needlessly in childbirth or pregnancy, and 20children are killed by avoidable diseases such as diarrhoea or malaria. 3Governments spend least on health care where the need is the greatest. 42
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