Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, University of G ttingen, language: English, abstract: "An estimated 766 million people, or 10.7 percent of the world's population, lived in extreme poverty in 2013." (World Bank 2017, p. 1) As if these numbers itself weren't enough sign of the great inequality in incomes after centuries of prosperity, following the World Income Indicators,...