ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is applicable to many countries and regions, but there are still countries and regions that stand out negatively against the rest of the international community. This especially applies to Africa. Most of the least developed countries are on this continent and create a veritable "poverty belt" or "fall belt" – a parking lane on the development highway. The burning question is whether we will one day "equalize the developmental pressure throughout" the entire planet "at the level of the most advanced" societies, bearing in mind "the current structure and organization of the international community, and given the domination of various individual and collective egoisms over global solidarity". A precondition for obtaining the most accurate North–South dividing line possible is to take a broad spectrum of the major challenges and problems confronting humanity into account when delimiting it.