ABSTRACT
Susan George (1999) proposes that globalisation is creating a three-track society, in which there are the exploiters, the exploited and the outcasts, the latter group being people who are not even worth exploiting. She argues that the current ‘corporate-driven, neo-liberal globalisation’ results in increasing inequalities between rich and poor, both within and between countries. Many are marginalised, specifically in the less developed world with weak state institutions and fragile economies burdened by debt payments. George (1999) observes that those marginalised do not passively wait until they starve to death, but create their own means to survive whether in the legal economy or in the illegal one and more often in the grey area that lies in between.
