Животниот стандард и сиромаштијата во услови на глобализација
Living standards and poverty in globalization

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary social reality despite serious efforts still failed to reach the answers to the set of issues related to poverty, unemployment and social exclusion. Inequality at global level is not only present on the world stage, but it is deepening. Hence, it is often spoken of divisions of large and small, of powerful and inferior, in one word, divisions at all levels. Modern society and social reality marked by the process of globalization and its influences have not yet managed to cope with the issue of poverty, unemployment, and thus the social exclusion of a part of the population. The process of globalization offers many of the opportunities that are mainly privileges that are primarily used by members of the rich as well as the middle-class society. Most of the benefits of the globalization process are not available to members of the low social strata. Globalization as a process has so far failed to find a solution to many important segments of social life, and in this context also the plan to improve the socioeconomic situation of the most vulnerable social groups, ie members of the lower social strata. The process of globalization through its action additionally affirmed the values of consumer culture and its desirability as an integral part of the modern way of living. It further marginalizes and socially excludes the poor population who is unable to achieve a desirable lifestyle and possible integration of them both locally and globally, bearing in mind the "secret labyrinth" in which the poor layer predestined for a continuous no way out. In this sense, the question arises as to whether poverty could be reduced or compared with "chronic disease".

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