Migration and Globalization
A 2009 study conducted by Gallup Polls across 135 countries reveals that 16 percent of the world’s adult population ... Growing prosperity, falling transport costs relative to wages, and lower risk all helped to facilitate ... were blamed for crime, disease, and the persistence of poverty in the urban centers of the Northeast and Midwest ...
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