Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account Brock

The increasing interdependence of world economies affects the standards of living greatly, but it can affect it positively. The standard of living is a measure of access people have to goods and services across the world. Quality of life is the conditions in peoples lives which is perspective. This paper will explain the importance of globalization in the developing world and how it can lead to open markets, taking millions out of extreme poverty and overall improving the standard of living across the world.

Globalization is the process of integration arising from the interchange among people, ideas, and culture. Globalization shows that international trade between other countries has impacted the way the U.S is now. Most of the products we use today is made in other countries such as China, Indonesia, and South Korea. As beneficial it may sound to have products made cheap in other countries and sold in the United States at a much higher price. This is also known to have a problem to the factory workers.

The fact of the matter is, “The existence of global poverty helps to ensure the wealth of affordable goods for western consumers.” (Eglitis 224) The supply of these affordable goods and products that are so readily enjoyed by western consumers is a direct result of the benefits gained from participating in a global manufacturing

There are some concerns about globalization and how it contributes to poverty and inequality in developed, and developing countries. First, let’s look at the ground rules set by the United Nation General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that equal and inalienable rights of all people of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.

In her piece, “Why Global Inequality Matters,” Nancy Birdsall argues that global inequality is an issue because it can negatively affect the social life, the political process and the economy of countries (especially developing ones). She looks at “how global integration affects poor versus rich countries (and people within countries), and on the resulting limits to poor countries’ (and poor people’s) ability to capture the potential benefits of globalization.” In order to argue her point further, she expounds on why global inequality matters and explores the possible role that globalization may have in perpetuating global inequality. Inequality matters, especially in developing countries with already weak institutions, because it may runs “the risk

There exists a global order that proclaims its primary purpose is to facilitate cooperation between rich and poor nations.6 The presence of said order creates an uneven distribution of advantage among nations, an imbalance sometimes thought to be the result of an array of independent factors. Mathias Risse suggests the global order harms third world nations through Uncompensated Exclusion; where privileged countries are given several advantages over the worse-off in regards to natural resources. Here the benefits of the impoverished are minimal. This defies the moral rule of Egalitarian Ownership, which describes all natural resources as belonging to all humankind.1 By denying the global poor an equal portion of natural resources during international commerce the order violates their people’s human rights to “a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of

Throughout the course readings, a lot of information was provided on how people talk about and engage with the word ‘race’. It is eye opening how people in power use ‘race’ to gain benefits without taking into consideration how different ‘choices’ impact the lives of racialize bodies. Furthermore, the articles provided others’ perspectives that help to understand and clarify why racialized people have been subjected to oppression and ‘racism’ in history. “Rethinking Global Justice” by Julia Sudbury is not different than the other course readings. The article provided an interesting point of view in relation to Black women’s experiences in the prison system in US and Canada and how this system supports these same ideas – exploitation of racialized

In Lisa L. Fuller’s paper, “Poverty Relief, Global Institutions and the Problem of Compliance,” Fuller argues that Thomas Pogge in his paper, “What Is Global Justice” has an ideal concept of justice in which he does take into consideration several factors at play including the process of implanting his solution as well as human nature. Fuller claims that although Pogge’s idea presents itself as the perfect solution to global poverty, Pogge is following an ideal conception of justice, meaning he makes several assumptions and does not take into consideration human nature. Pogge’s solution to global poverty is not realistically possible as Fuller argues. A non-ideal concept of justice, according to Fuller, is one that may not completely resolve global poverty but

Within the last 60 years, Third World development has been a global priority, at the top of virtually every Western agenda. And with the rise of the global population and poverty levels continuing to rise along with it, it is very easy to see why human development is becoming such a topic of focus and discussion among members of the academia. But one question that everyone wants the answer too is, how does Third World development fit into Globalization? Despite apparent compatibility, when closely examined it is clear to see that Globalization actually contradicts Third World development due to the conflict of agendas. Both Globalization and Development hold views concerning market reform, social structure and regulation, which are

This led me to the conclusion that this economic order, this system as a whole, continues on and becomes even more encompassing because the people in charge, the people in the North as Stieglitz calls them, are the ones that have set the agenda and therefore they are the ones that benefit the most ffrom disproportionate gains. As he later states in his piece Globalism’s Discontents, the United States and Europe have gained while sub-Saharan Africa has actually lost 2% because of the current economic system (223). In a nutshell, there are people in this world living on a few dollars a day so that the interests of a few can outweigh the welfare of billion. As globalization forces us to become even more connected, the disparities between the First World and the Third World will become even more

The world is a far more connected place today than 150 years ago. The rapid rate of technological advancement which in turn accelerated international trade has led us to an age where states are politically, economically and culturally interconnected. Now, to many, this seems like a good thing, and in many cases it is: the ability to talk to someone instantaneously from the other corner of the planet, to buy something from china and for it to arrive within a week… are all positive things that stem from globalization, but underneath these superficial changes the world has seen a pretty big economic shift since the dawn of the neoliberal era and the rebirth of globalization. To be able to properly analyze the effect globalization has had on inequality we have to look at how we define it: Most neoliberalists tend to look exclusively at extreme poverty as the reference point for inequality and therefore the only objective to eliminate, in fact the World Bank’s online entries about poverty (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview,2016) talk only about the extreme type of poverty, whereas most critics of neoliberalism underline the need for economists and politicians to also focus on relative poverty and the fast growing gap between the rich and the poor. There is also the question of who we are referring to when talking about inequality; inequality can be discussed both at state level and at an individual level.

If we take a look at Cross country studies presented by Harrison we see a different take on globalization. It takes a look at the relationship between poverty, inequality and globalization. Easterly finds that increasing trade integration is associated with Falling inequalities within developed countries and greater

When investigating the global state of poverty and prosperity there is clear difference between the wealthy nations and impoverished nations. In the past decades there has been an increase in economic polarity between the developed and developing nations of the world. Some nations are prospering greatly while others countries are still struggling to achieve, economic, political, and social stability. The book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson attempts to explain why some nations have seen great success in their economic and political development, and why other nations are still failing to develop in this way. The arguments derived come from the key themes in chapters 3, 8, 9 and 15 of Acemoglu and Robinson’s book.

One of the most popular arguments I hear about whether or not God exists is if He does, why does the world and its occupants experience all the calamities, disasters, and misfortunes that we do? And unfortunately, I do not have an answer that will suffice. That God works in mysterious ways or that our finite minds simply can neither comprehend nor understand the inner workings of His infinite mind do not seem to placate the skeptics. However, on the bright side is that skeptics do realize injustices exist in the world. The reason this is promising is that if a person who doubts religion as well as God but recognizes transgressions in the world, then you can infer that they also recognize goodness and

Global stratification can be defined that globe countries and areas are not on an equal footing in the process of economic, political and cultural globalization (Andersen & Taylor, 2006). The economic globalization has exacerbated the imbalance of world economy and has widened the wealth gap. Globalization has brought unfair relationships between developing countries and developed countries. Gao (2000) noted that economic globalization has expanded the gap between South and North. And it has brought huge shocks to national economy of developing countries. The international economic organizations like the Word Bank, IMF and WTO are in the hand of developed countries (El-Ojeili, C. & Hayden, P., 2006.). All the principles, institutions and sequences for the world economic operation are made by them. (Sklair, 2002)What’s more, the economic, technical and management advantages that is owned by Western countries cannot be easily and fully surpassed by developing countries.