ABSTRACT
In 2000, the Heads of State and government and members and the United Nations met for the Millennium Summit, with the stated aim of working for a decade to combat poverty, disease and injustice. When they met again after four years it was apparent that very little had been achieved. (see 401, 2255, 2302, 2328)
1804 – Signs of a change in the world economy were already present in the oil crisis of 1973, but could have been predicted as long ago as the end of the Second World War, with its upheavals in production, trade and currencies and also in the persistent financial and technological disparities between nations, some of them newly independent. Each government responded with solutions geared to the immediate problem, but on a scale that was inadequate to address the dangers.
