If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Globalization often fails to reach the poorest people who lack basic education and resources.
- In plain terms
- Poor, uneducated people do not benefit from global economic changes.
- What can you take from it?
- Access to education is a prerequisite for economic globalization to help individuals.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who benefits most from current global trade systems?
- How can education bridge the gap?
Another view
Some argue that global trade eventually lifts all boats even if slowly.
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