Even as we continue to delude ourselves through palliatives which suggest that globally, the world is experiencing incremental improvements in the global condition in which people live, the World Bank is releasing its own research-based findings that challenge the ‘things-are-getting-better’ notion that other schools of thought may be promoting.
Recently, in a seeming pushback against the lenses of optimism through which other institutions view the human condition, the World Bank has asserted that half of the world’s 75 poorest countries are experiencing a widening income gap with the wealthiest ones. Significantly, the Bank asserts that this is ‘the first time this century’ that this phenomenon is occurring and that the alarming news has triggered a reaction from the international financial institution that includes raising an awareness that seeks to call global attention to what it suggests is a worsening problem.
