Global issues: Poverty and Development: Brown on Globalization

Gordon Brown, yes him - the man whose biggest problem was that he actually looked like the Labour party, warns that the world will pay a heavy price for ignoring the sorrows of the left-out millions. He claims ‘It doesn’t have to be this way’. His article in the Independent might be useful for introducing global Issues topic of ‘Poverty and Development’ as it does touch on all the key themes:

A global chance for jobs and justice Gordon Brown, The Independent

“There is a chain of destruction that starts with over-greedy bankers speculating in sub-prime across America that links to banks collapsing throughout the western world that leads in turn to the inexcusable waste of 69 million children’s lives. The world will pay a heavy price for ignoring the sorrows of the left-out millions. It doesn’t have to be this way; with the right global co-operation there is a new Africa and a people-centred globalisation just waiting to be born.”