Introduction
Recent trends in the global economy show an ever-widening gap in the equality of wealth and income. Both on the individual national and international levels, countries are becoming further separated on the level on personal wealth. This has come mainly as a result of the process of globalization. Countries are becoming more and more competitive with one another, attempting to remain afloat the expanding globalization process they have put their countries social development at great costs (Human Development Report, 2005). Many of the policies countries enact in order to remain competitive have failed in their ability to help the people. Liberalizing policies, such those specific to trade and finance, have caused greater inequality and stability in terms of employment, income, as well as hindered a countries control over their own policies. In fact, many policies have disabled a countries ability to retain control of both monetary policies and exchange rates (HRD,......
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