...years, the world has become more economically polarized - both between countries and within countries. If present trends continue, economic disparities between...and developing nations will move from inequitable to inhuman.'3 In 1997, the Third World grassroots' situation had not improved: 'More than a quarter of...

...and legitimate, development progress, both nationally and internationally, must be people centred, equitably distributed and environmentally and socially...the industrial and developing nations will move from inequitably to inhumane." ' The tool developed for an alternative measurement is the Human Development...

...forty years earlier. The Unired Nations Development Programme administrator, James Speth, commenred: 'If present trends continue, economic disparities...and developing nations will move from inequitable to inhuman.' On I May 1997, in the British General Election, the Conservative Party was defeared afrer...

...can be shown in the economic statistics. Even so, the statistics were no less ominous than before. 'If present trends continue, economic disparities...and developing nations will move from inequitable to inhuman' the Report said. In purely economic terms, almost seventy countries could count the 1980s...