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These factors include both "push" factors. such as extensive unemployment and "pull" factors. such as the perceived opportunity of relatively highly paid employment in the United States. According to World Bank and "Global 2000" studies. these disparities will continue and in all likelihood grow in the foreseeable future. Hence the forces fueling the "pushpull" components driving illegal immigration over our borders may be expected to accelerate considerably in the coming decades. According to the "Global 2000" report. the world faces the "potential for global problems of alarming proportions" by the turn of the century unless steps are taken to avert environmental and ponulation problems. "If present trends continue. the world in 2000 will be more crowded. more polluted. less stable ecologically and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now." according to the report. a 3year study that coordinated data from all Federal Government agencies. The "Global 2000" study. in its more than 800 pages of detail. paints a generally gloomy picture: Income: Using estimates of gross national product. the "Global 2000" researchers project overall increases. but the gaps between the rich and poor countries are expected to widen.