何时填平世界贫富"鸿沟"

在经济全球化进程中,各国日益变得互为依存,利害与共。然而,巨大的贫富差距却使世界显得很不和谐。虽然国际社会多年来为了缩小贫富“鸿沟”付出了许多努力,但总的说来收效甚微,众多不发达国家因为旧的国际经济秩序而被进一步“边缘化”,在痛苦的深渊中挣扎。缩小贫富差距决非一日之功,需要多方面做出艰苦的努力,建立国际经济新秩序是其中的关键环节。 贫富差距触目惊心 联合国2001年5月在布鲁塞尔举行了第三世界最不发达国家会议,与会国家共有49个,其中非洲34个,亚洲9个,太平     

When Galileo Meets Allah

Going through a protracted period of transition since the end of the Cold War, the world order in the making is neither what was nor what it is yet to become. It is in “the middle of the future.” To get our bearings in this uncertain transition, we explore the two grand post‐Cold War narratives—“The End of History” as posited by Francis Fukuyama and “The Clash of Civilizations” posited by the late Samuel Huntington. Mikhail Gorbachev looks back at his policies that brought the old order to collapse. The British philosopher John Gray critiques the supposed “universality” of liberalism and, with Homi Bhabha, sees a world of hybrid identities and localized cultures. The Singaporean theorist Kishore Mahbubani peels away the “veneer” of Western dominance. Amartya Sen, the economist and Nobel laureate, assesses whether democratic India or autocratic China is better at building “human capacity” in their societies.