• Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
• The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
• Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
• Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
• 51 percent of the world’s 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations.
• The wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation.
• The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money.
• 20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods.
• The top fifth of the world’s people in the richest countries enjoy 82% of the expanding export trade and 68% of foreign direct investment — the bottom fifth, barely more than 1%.
• In 1960, the 20% of the world’s people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, 74 times as much.

More facts here.

The truth may bore you. But however you shake this world, it will still remain as it is. The poor will still be on the lead when we speak of numbers. Majority of our population will still belong to the state of poverty.

To whom do we point the finger? Do we have to blame the poor and needy for landing into such situation? Some of the fortunate few believe that the poor are solely responsible for their plight. Their own predicament is just a consequence of wrong decisions and indolence.

I express my dissent in a contrary opinion. We could probably examine the government. They have definitely pursued policies that have actually harmed successful development. Behind the increasing interconnectedness promised by globalization are global decisions, policies, and practices. As expected, these are controlled by the rich and powerful which includes high-ranking officials and global actors in the form of multinational corporations, institutions, and influential people.

Now I understand why they blame the poor for being poor. They just want someone to cover up their ulterior motives.