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As the world grows together, it is also growing apart, states the World Economic Forum's new Global Risks Report.
The global financial crisis has 'drained the world's capacity' to deal with any further shocks, according to the report.
Global Risks 2011 also provides insights on a number of emerging risks and outliers to this year's global risk landscape that could surprise us in the future.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Homeless people prepare food on a roadside in Ahmedabad.Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters.
While globalisation has generated sustained economic growth for a generation, the report says it has shrunk and reshaped the world, making it far more interconnected and interdependent.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Children hold their bowls as they wait for free meals during a feeding program, Tondo, Manila.Photographs: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters.
Although growth of the new champions is rebalancing economic power between countries, there is evidence that economic disparity within countries is growing.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Children rest in a wooden cart after their shanty was burnt in a fire at a slum in Quezon, Manila.Photographs: Erik de Castro/Reuters.
Economic disparity is tightly interconnected with corruption, demographic challenges, fragile states, global imbalances and asset-price collapse.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: A homeless man lies in front of the Louvre Hotel in Paris.Photographs: Jacky Naegelen/Reuters.
Economic disparity plays out between and within countries. Ease of communication has made inequalities between countries more visible.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: A jobless man pulls a trolley full of recyclable items in Orlando, Soweto in Aouth Africa.Photographs: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Aida Lemus, 70, cries as she is evicted from her foreclosed condominium in Anaheim, California.Photographs: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters.
Economic analysis by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and others suggests that real income growth of the top income quintiles of the populations in Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and the United States of America was twice as large as that of the bottom quintiles between the mid-1980s to mid-2000s.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: A homeless woman looks on as demonstrators march during a protest against globalisation.. . .
20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Members of an Italian anti-poverty coalition wear masks of G8 country leaders.Photographs: Chris Helgren/Reuters.
Global governance failures create and exacerbate systemic global risks, survey results showed strong interconnections between global governance failures and regulatory failures, corruption and economic disparity, with retrenchment from globalization and global governance failures being seen as mutually reinforcing, the study said.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Internally displaced Somali people receive relief food in Madina district, southern Mogadishu.Photographs: Feisal Omar/Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Devotees watch idols of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity and Lord Shiva duringPhotographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: A child carries a tray of bread on his head in Cairo.Photographs: Nasser Nuri/Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Protesters carry an army soldier after he took part in clashes with supporters of Yemeni President.Photographs: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: A child holds a bottle of emergency long shelf-life mineral water at a nursery school in Tokyo.Photographs: Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Children wait in a queue to collect water distributed by the army at the Jatrabari area in Dhaka.Photographs: Andrew Biraj/Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Vendors work in roadside shops during a power cut in an old part of Dhaka.Photographs: Andrew Biraj/Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: A man and his son ride a bicycle on dry and cracked farmland in San Juan town, near Manila.Photographs: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: More demand for food.Photographs: Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: US Dept of Homeland Security analysts work at the National Cybersecurity Communications Center.Photographs: Reuters.
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20 facts on the biggest risks the world faces today
Image: Malaysians participate in a computer attack and defence hacking competition.Photographs: Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters.
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