Globalization increases poverty.
Globalization provides opportunities that were not available before. Globalization makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, increasing the gap between them. Globalization is something new and independent of capitalism. Globalization is nothing but imperialism with a new face and it undermines civil society. These were some of the wildly divergent opinions on globalization expressed today during a Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue held as part of the State of the World Forum 2000, at the New York Hilton hotel.