Globalisation, I'm writing your name.

It is really difficult trying to talk about the economic gap between the North and the South. Yet, maybe we can try to explain it. Instead of feeling sad. At least.

I think that both the industrial revolution and globalisation have created blatant inequalities. The former entailed deep social changes, the creation of a destitute working class, kept at starvation level by low wages, living in slums in new industrial centres and submitted to the sweating system.

The latter is often accused of increasing the gap between the Western world and developing countries, though some specialists contend that, far from putting poor countries at a disadvantage, globalisation has helped them to grow faster. Others also claim that, were it not for the WTO, the situation might play in the hands of the multinationals at the expense of the losers.

Maybe it's not globalisation in itself that must be questioned, but the way it is implemented. We should then try and check the worst excesses of globalisation so that the global village leaves no ones out.