... or not there is equality throughout the world, especially between the countries in the North and the countries in the South. The reason for there being a question of differences between the Northern and Southern hemispheres is based on the idea of the 'North-South divide' brought about through the Brandt Reports in the early 1980's. This concept has come about due to the tendency for industrial development to be prominent in the northern hemisphere, while poverty and disadvantage is prominent in the southern hemisphere (apart from Australia). "The concept 'North-South divide' drew attention to the way in which aid, third-world debt and the practices of MNC's help to perpetuate structural inequalities between the high-wage, high-investment industrialized North and the low-wage, low-investment predominantly rural South". (Heywood, 2002: pp 141) This essay asks about the question of equality between the North and the South, but before we can assess how these ...

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