"GLOBALIZATION is an attempt by the largest international banks and multinational corporations to run the world their way, for their own benefit and by their own set of rules, rules that would allow them to undo a century of social progress and to alter the distribution of income from inequitable to inhuman…"

"If GLOBALIZATION means that every time you try and regulate something, your biggest trading partner says you can't - that could raise some irritants."

• The richest one-fifth of the world's people consumes 86% of all goods and services, while the poorest one-fifth consumes just 1.3%. The richest one-fifth consumes 45% of all meat and fish, 58% of all energy used, and 84% of all paper, has 74% of all telephone lines and owns 87% of all vehicles.

• Of the 4.4 billion people in the developing countries, nearly three-fifths lack access to safe sewers, one-third have no access to clean water, one-quarter do not have adequate housing, and one-fifth have no access to modern health services of any kind.

• The additional cost of achieving and maintaining universal access to basic education for all, basic health care for all, reproductive health care for all women, adequate food for all, and clean water and safe sewers for all is estimated to be roughly $40 billion a year - less than 4% of the combined wealth of the 225 richest people in the world.