When examining the history of social inequalities, sociologists refer to injustices such as global injustice to try to understand why inequalities have arrived today. Global injustices are inequalities between different countries caused by the history of how countries have reached certain economic, political and cultural positions. Some examples of global injustice are the fact that 8% of the world's population lives on less than $10 a day and that the combined income of the world's 500 richest people is higher than that of the poorest 416 million. These astronomical problems can be attributed to the way countries have developed over time. Developed countries like China have fewer global social problems and benefit more from the global economy than still developing countries. The reason is that developing countries face greater problems of economic success, due to inequalities, such as unfair trade and debt, which make them unable to compete with the economies of developed countries. These inequalities between countries date back to the way they have industrialized over time. Vadana Shiva, in her book “Stolen Harvest” provides a good example of a global injustice that has substantially worsened throughout history when explaining the effects of the North American Trade Agreement on Mexico. Shiva (2000) continues