Nanotechnologies are capable of introducing promising applications that could impact upon our dailylives; it is through the visualisation and control of matter at the scale of a billionth of a metre thatallows nanotechnologies to modify and enhance the properties of products across all industry sectors.Even though nanotechnologies have immense potential, they are only in their infancy and have yet toreach full maturity. When considering the changes they could bring, it must be asked: arenanotechnologies going to reduce the rich-poor divide, or will they have the opposite effect?

In light of debates that make nanotechnologies responsible for a further widening of the

aforementioned divide, this report analyses this Nano-Gap, or Nano-Divide, by examining the pros andcons of nanotechnologies and their impact global development and the on-going fight againstpoverty.