Folkrörelser och Protester

A statistical measure of the failure of the peoples' movements: The shares of the global incomes distributed on decentiles. The richest ten percents grow increasingly richer, from 48% of the incomes in 1970 to 54% in 1999. Primarily at the expence of thouse who have taken part in the peeoles' movements of the twentieth century -- about the sixth to the ninth decentile. But if you look closely the thrird to the fifth has gained too -- this are the Chinese, whise national & agrarian mobilization was one of the great successes of the twentieth century. Source: Yuri Dikhanov & Michael Ward: Evolution of the global distribution of income in 1970-99, 5th Conference on Globalisation, Growth and Inequality, Warwick 2002. The figures concern the whole income, not only the monetarized one.