The world is witnessing increasing levels of extreme poverty, with increasing conflict, population displacement, and intensification of ethnic conflicts, all of which are deepening inequality around the world and rising rates of economic marginalization, and the inability to make progress in empowering marginalized groups. In the Arab region, inequality between social groups and groups has in- creased significantly in the last two decades, and the differences between geographical areas within a single country have sharpened, and the forms of those differences vary from regional to ethnic, linguistic, religious, tribal, and other differences that significantly increase the rates of economic marginalization.
