MODERN SLAVERY AS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON

Abstract

It is estimated that over 40 million men, women and children worldwide are in some form of slavery. Although formal slavery and forced labour have been abolished in all the world, there is no country in the world that doesn’t have at least some form of modern slavery. Modern slavery has become a global phenomenon. Thus, the objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between economic inequality of countries, population and number of people in some form of modern slavery. This research starts with the assumptions that the number of people in some form of modern-day slavery is higher in the countries that, according to the methodology of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, belong to the group of countries with a lower income and in the countries with a larger population. Many scientific methods were used in various combinations to confirm the set hypotheses, of which the most important are the method of analysis and synthesis, method of induction and deduction, the method of descriptive statistics and the method of correlation analysis. The results of this research are based on secondary data sources.