“The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people—almost half of all humanity—to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.”

—  Kofi Annan

Awake! magazine, May 22, 2002; Can Globalization Really Solve Our Problems?

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7th Secretary-General of the United Nations 1938–2018

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