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Absolute and Relative Poverty  

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Absolute and Relative Poverty In between the years 1978 and 1980 politics from all over the world came together to see if they could help the world's poverty. A man called Willy Brandt the groups chairman wrote an introduction saying: 'Our report is based on what appears to be the simplest common interest. Mankind wants to survive and, one might even add, has the moral obligations to survive. This not only raises the traditional questions of peace and war, but also how to over come world hunger, mass misery and alarming differences between the living conditions of rich and poor ... we want to emphasize our belief that the two decades ahead of us maybe fateful to mankind' (North-South: A Programme for Survival, 1980) The best way to show how the world divides into rich and poor is the North-South line. In the North part of the equator (including Australia) are...

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