DATA OF SHAME

DATA OF SHAME

The global gap between those who have and those not, between those who know and those who are deprived of knowing you are
widening.
The assets of the three richest men in the world - Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, Haji Hassanal
Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei and Robson Walton, the owner of the supermarket chain Wal-Mart, reaches
250,000 billion and equivalent to the gross domestic product of 43 countries, almost all African countries.
The 200 richest people in the world own about $ 1,000 billion, while 1 billion and
300 million people live on $ 1 a day.
The richest 20% of the world population controls 86% of world gross domestic product and 80%
exports.
The poorest 20% controlling only 1% of both.
More than 80 countries now have a per capita income lower than 10 years ago.
In the report the UN human development index ranking 174 countries according to life expectancy, education
and income. The last 10 are all Africans.
The external debt of African countries amounted to 550,000 billion lire; in many cases a good part of the
exports is absorbed by the payment of the debt.
Tanzania, for example, spends on debt repayment 9 times what it spends for assistance
health, and 4 times what it spends on education, while the debt of Congo Brazzaville corresponds
to 454% of its GDP and that of Mozambique to 443%.
From the 2000 UN report on human development
economy
Income inequalities have grown like never before: the distance between the incomes of the richest countries
compared with poorer ones was 3 to 1 in 1820, 35 to 1 in 1950, 44 to 1 in 1973 and 1 in 72
in 1993.
140 million children and 110 million girls are working.
1 billion people are unemployed or underemployed.
The per capita income is $ 22,690 in the rich countries and poor ones in 280.
Poor countries in '99 have received a total of $ 12 million for aid, it must
repay 185 million.
In rich countries each consumes 8623 kWh of electricity, and poor 96 kWh.
wars
In the 90s there were 300,000 child soldiers and 6 million injured in armed conflicts.
34 countries are in conflict, because of this in the 90s are death 5 million people.
In the world there are 10 million refugees.
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1 million and 200,000 girls under 18 years old are exploited for prostitution.
About 100 million women have undergone genital mutilation; added each year 2 million
little girls.
Around the world, women hold 14% of parliamentary seats, 4% in Arab countries.
In the USA, who call themselves the home of freedom, 2 million people are in jail.
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34 million people are living with HIV, 23 of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
2.4 billion people lack access to clinics, hospitals or principals.
In the U.S., 40 million people have no health insurance.
Life expectancy is 77 years in rich countries, in 50 poor countries.
105 out of 1000 children die at birth, others 167 1000 within 5 years of life.
education
99 million children do not attend primary school.
In the U.S., 1 in 5 is functionally illiterate.
Female literacy: 98.7% in rich countries, 39% in poor countries.
Quality of life (water, housing, nutrition, environment)
100 million people do not have a home
100 million children live on the streets.
800 million people do not have enough food.
Over the past 20 years, 900,000 people have died as a result of natural disasters in poor countries, in
lack of relief and prevenzione.Dati the World Health Organization on pollution
In 2001, nearly 5 million children under 5 died from ann diseases caused by polluted environments
or unhealthy: 13 000 deaths per day due to environmental degradation.
Of these:
- $ 2 million for severe respiratory problems due to air pollution;
- 1.3 million for diarrhea due to lack of proper sanitation;
- 1 million for infectious diseases like malaria;
- 380,000 per accident;
- 20,000 for poisoning by toxic substances.
Estimates from the World Health Organization on Water and Health
2 billion people have no access to health care.
1 billion 400 million people lack access to safe drinking water.
Over the past 50 years the availability of water has fallen by three quarters in Africa and two thirds in Asia. In Africa, access
Water is still very far from acceptable levels, especially in the villages, where only 40% of the
population has drinking water and only 20% have toilets.
Each year worldwide die 10 million people, half of them children, cholera, typhoid, dysentery and other
diseases due to the lack of drinking water and the resultant consumption of contaminated water.
In those countries, especially in Africa, water is responsible for over 80% of diseases. WHO figures
show that it is easier to die for lack of water (dehydration or diarrhea) that
hunger.
The World Commission indicates in 40 liters of water per person per day for the least amount
meet basic needs.
While a European family consumes an average of 165 liters per day.
arms
Every year the world spends $ 750 billion in weapons, ie 5 times the debt of the 40 poorest countries.
The governments of many countries of the Third World increased military spending, cutting back on investment in services
and measures to support the poor.
India and Pakistan each spend 20 billion dollars a year on defense and both have 6 times
more military doctors.
Sudan has squandered third of its gross domestic product on the military.
Thailand has increased its military spending by 26% in 1996 alone, Sri Lanka even more.
Three quarters of the world's nations have signed the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, which bans the production, use,
stockpiling of anti-personnel mines, but among the countries that have not joined us are China, Russia and the United
States (among the largest producers in the world), India and Pakistan, which have littered with landmines Kashmir.
Continue to die every year from landmines 20,000 people, mostly civilians.
Every dollar spent on weapons is subtracted education, health and sustainable development.
On the other hand the export of weapons is a big deal for many countries, especially North of the world.The 12 corporations that decide the future of the global South
cereals
Cargill (USA) turnover of 50.8 billion dollars.
Archer Daniel Midlands (USA) turnover of 23.4 billion dollars
Louis Dreyfus (France, USA) revenues of $ 18 billion
Bunge (USA) revenues $ 11.4 billion
Andre (Switzerland) revenues of $ 4.2 billion
These 5 companies control 85-90% of the world market for cereals and oilseeds.
bananas
Dole (USA) sales of $ 4.4 billion
Chiquita (USA) sales of $ 2.2 billion
Del Monte (UAE) revenues of $ 1.9 billion
These three companies control 70-75% of the international market in bananas.
agrochemicals
Cargill-Monsanto
Archer Daniel Midlands - Novartis
These two giants of fertilizers and pesticides control 75% of the world market for the products
chemicals for agriculture.
cotton
Louis Dreyfus (France, USA) revenues of $ 18 billion
Dunavant (USA) revenue $ 1.03 billion
Reinhart (Germany)
These companies control 85-90% of the international cotton market.
seeds
Cargill-Monsanto
Archer Daniel Midlands Novartis
The two giants of the market in cereals have joined each with a giant chemical and pharmaceutical
international seed.
cocoa
Cargill (USA) turnover of 50.8 billion dollars
Archer Daniel Midlands (USA) turnover of 23.4 billion dollars
Barry Callebaut (Switzerland) revenues of $ 1.7 billion
These companies control 85% of the cocoa trade.
coffee
Nestle (Switzerland) turnover of 50.6 billion dollars
Procter & Gamble (USA) turnover of 40.2 billion dollars
Kraft / Philip Morris (USA) turnover of 33.8 billion dollars
Sara Lee (USA) turnover of 17.6 billion dollars
These companies are present in many areas, not only agricultural but also industrial and control
85 to 90% of the market internazionale.I methods of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World
Trade
These organizations are now able to decide the place of governments on economic and social policies
of all countries of the world.
Officials IMF, WB, WTO are not elected, do not realize the damage they are causing to the people themselves,
decide on the skin and on the lives of others.
The disasters in the Third World
When the emissaries of these organizations appear in the corridors of power of any country, they begin
problems.
In fact, they represent the thousands of commercial banks that lend to governments. as moneylenders
claim the refund with interest absurd (22-52%) and affect the application of other loans
correction in the budgets of nations.
It begins with the devaluation of the currency, substantially increasing the prices of imported goods and commodities.
We then move to the dismissal of public employees, continuing with the removal of aid or incentives
agriculture or crafts.
Privatize state-owned enterprises and the buyers are often ex-bureaucrats who put their hands on the riches
public, perhaps aided by organized crime; this new class of wealthy is the main architect
rampant corruption.
The costs of running schools and hospitals are fully loaded on the balance sheets of the community, but the
depreciation reduces income, so the tax revenue, and finally the financial statements.
Illiteracy increases as the disease once eliminated or successfully combated (malaria, tubecolosi,
poliomyelitis), thanks to the elimination of medical school and decentralized.
The decrease in income prevents the purchase of medicines sold in western western prices.
The disease also affects children in some countries and kill 15 children out of 100.
The average lifespan decreases.
The power is sapped and related diseases appear to lack of vitamins.
They are then offered to the countries food aid (surplus market of USA and Canada, also given for
keep the price artificially high market share) that the government must sell at a price lower than the
local production.
This frustrates agricultural cooperatives and smallholders, who are forced to sell the land or
produce the only thing promoted: the product that serves multinationals (cotton in Mali, India, Bangladesh;
bananas in Central America, the Ivory Coast; soy, rice, fruit).
The farmers are forced to produce at a very low cost and need to maximize the productivity of
ground, using fertilizers or chemical fertilizers as highly polluting are subsidized by
multinationals.
The other farmers are forced to cultivate small plots of land that are not even sufficient for their
subsistence, often confined to marginal lands or subject to flooding or disasters; many migrate in
city, creating those huge monstrosities that are the slums.
In several countries (Laos, Vietnam, Colombia, Peru), the farmers are forced to work in the plantations of coca;
the proceeds of drug trafficking is used to buy shares or privatized companies.
So many countries self-sufficient in terms of food are in complete dependence on countries
rich, exacerbating their debt: domestic production is superseded by the export firm
by multinationals.
The repayment of the debt is an excuse: the debt is used blackmail to impose economic policies.
The state, for its part, must prevent riots with the army and comply with requests for de-unionization,
elimination of any constraint minimum wage and protection against its citizens (pensions, health,
schools). In many countries, cme the Philippines, there are the so-called free zones, where the multinationals are
lured with the promise of tax breaks and low wages. In these areas you can not go on strike, nor organize
Syndication and laws to protect workers in the country are suspended. Multinational companies require at
International purchase price of raw materials, clearly at the expense of local producers, who
are earning less and less working more and more. Once you purchase the product when it
comes in rich countries, the price suddenly increases by up to 10 times. A shirt made ​​in
Bangladesh is sold at $ 0.50 in New York to $ 46, much to the joy and benefit of multinational corporations and
intermediaries. The countries under this economic regime are now owned by multinational corporations, which
exploiting the raw materials and populations, marginalizing those who are not useful to the operation of the machine
production, suck to the bone vital energies of individuals and populations. In many cases (Somalia,
Rwanda, Colombia, Liberia, Sierra Leone) this has resulted in fratricidal wars, which have made glad the
arms dealers and producer countries, in other cases (Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, etc.). bloodthirsty tyrants,
that imposed by force of arms and terror economic recipes neoliberiste.L 'last big business: the water
While environmental groups and committees of experts are sounding the alarm over the shortage of water resources
on the planet, a handful of multinational corporations, backed by the World Bank and the IMF
International, they found that the water industry profits are higher than the industry
pharmaceuticals, today close to one million dollars.
These companies are thus taking control of the management of public water services throughout the
world.
The logic is simple and ruthless: the water crisis is creating a wonderful opportunity to gain and
take advantage of them.
Today, the "lords of water" are a dozen; larger companies are French, Vivendi Universal and
Suez. Taken together, deliver water and sanitation services to over 200 million users in 150 countries and aim
to expand into every corner of the earth.
These companies are backed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which
forcing Third World countries to give up their public systems of water distribution and
privatize them, by entering into contracts with "water lords", to gain access to the cancellation of
debt.
Blackmail true, in fact.
The work of these is characterized by enormous profits, increase the price of water, disruption of
service to those who can not pay, no transparency in commercial transactions, poor quality
Water corruption.
In summary, the water is considered a commodity like any other, only accessible to those who have the money to pay for it
and not a fundamental human right.