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Commentary To Professor Stephen D. Krasner, Jürgen Kurtz
Commentary To Professor Stephen D. Krasner, Jürgen Kurtz
Michigan Journal of International Law
Comment on Professor Stephen D. Krasner's The Hole in the Whole: Sovereignty, Shared Sovereignty, and International Law
Bridging The North/South Divide: International Redistribution And Tax Competition, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Bridging The North/South Divide: International Redistribution And Tax Competition, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
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The most important social problem facing humanity at the beginning of the 21st century is the yawning divide in standards of living between the rich nations of the global North and the poor nations of the global South. The following table gives some indicia of the current gap in living standards. It shows that the majority of the population in most developing countries lives on less than two dollars a day; that in some developing countries, over a quarter of children aged 10-14 are employed in the work force; that mortality for children under five in developing countries can be …