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The scope of development and inequality issues is global the 1980s and 1990s
were characterized by deepening inequality whitin and between atates. An
understanding of this globalization of inequality callstarmore
Table 5.1 shows the distribution of global income , resources and wealth
between the highest-and lowest-income countries. It is worth pausing to
comment on the distribution of telephone lines. The ESCAP Survey (1999)
identifies the future of development as internet commerce. Yet out of the worlds
6 billion population , there are only 50 million internet users, and over 90 per
cent of internet hosts arew in North America and Western Europe . Eighty per
cent of people worldwide do not have access to a telephone (African
Development Bank, 1998,p.172). thus the majority of global citizens are not in a
position to tap into the ongoing technological advance and the associated
communications revolution. This revolution, therefore, is set to increase
disparities between states and between states and between people free also
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