The 2011 London riots, the Occupy Wall Street protests in the US and its sisterly 2012 Occupy Nigeria riots triggered by the Nigerian government's scrapping of fuel subsidies, and the Ugandan Lower Bank Interest Rates or else we close-shops demonstration, exemplify the fact that the world economic set-up is on a pendulum.
Even though in the more recent past the word globalisation was a rosy catch-phrase in social science dictum, today we are seeing a world unified by experiences of popular public economic and political discontent.
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