Essay about Globalization Hurts the World's Poor

For individuals in very poor and economically unstable countries, globalization tends to do more harm than good. Through the economic, political and cultural examples stated above, globalization has not aided these countries climb out of poverty, develop an influential government or have a strong cultural identity, in fact, it has done the exact opposite. L’Huillier quotes Charles Darwin, “if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by out institution, great is our sin” (2017 381). The business model that globalization suggests is an unattainable utopia for those in developing countries. These traits of poverty and war have always existed yet, many of today’s countries are the way they are because of the models that are favored and paraded under globalization

“The International Labor Organization estimates that at least 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are working, mostly in the developing world.” Many Americans view child labor as wrong or dangerous, but they do not realize how essential child labor can be in developing countries. In the article “Regulated Child Labor Is Necessary in Developing Countries,” by John Tierney, a current author for the New York Times, focuses on child labor and why it is essential in some developing countries. Tierney creates a sympathetic tone for the readers to try and understand the struggles regarding child labor in developing countries.

In her article, “Live Free and Starve,” Chitra Divakaruni uses multiple persuasive appeals, alongside a pattern of evaluation, to drive home her opinion of child labor in Third World countries. Directed at Americans who recently passed a bill banning import of goods made by children, she explains how boycotting these companies may negatively affect the lives and livelihood of children and their families in these nations. Throughout this article, Chitra is able to stay in-touch with her audience by maintaining a back-and-forth balance between support and criticism for the bill with great success.

Generally, globalism has been attributed to better worldwide communication, advanced technological development, and a higher international standard of living, and rightfully so. However, with all these new worldwide advantages comes a new type of human exploitation. Many companies, specifically American ones, have been quick to take advantage of the cheap and dangerous labor available in most of the undeveloped world. Countries who are working through their period of Industrialization are being siphoned off and used to maintain America’s economy, while their developing country reaps no reward from the low paying, dehumanizing jobs that American companies offer their low class workers. This type of inhumane job outsourcing can only be compared

The world is not a large and strange place anymore. The world is a place that is interconnected and intertwined. The world has become from a place that each country and their peoples are separate and isolated to a place that each country and their peoples are part of a global network. Thanks to globalization this is occurring. Globalization is the ‘international integration” or ‘de-bordering’ – “a number of highly disparate observations whose regular common denominator is the determination of a profound transformation of the traditional nation-state” (Von Bogdandy 2). Globalization is connecting different people from different cultures and backgrounds together. More and more corporations are entering new foreign markets to sell their

Children in India are being forced to work many hours a day for very little pay. More than 20 % of India’s economy are child workers under the age of 14. This is a problem they operate on deadly machines and they can be harmed. They also are exposed to bad working environments and can be injured or killed. If the refuse to work they are threatened or beaten. This a problem and this needs to stop because children have the right to a child hood. (Dougall,

Poverty and high unemployment. Poor children and their families may rely upon child labor in order to improve their chances of attaining basic necessities. About one-fifth of the world’s 6 billion people live in absolute poverty. The intensified poverty in parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America causes many children there to become child laborers. In India, the parents send the children to sell petty items so they can have money to buy food and other basic amenities. This is due to the high unemployment in the country leaving lots of people living below the minimum cash per capital.

Globalization has had a significant impact on the lives of women in the developing nations, which we will further examine in the two countries – Bangladesh and Kenya. In this paper, Globalization is defined as “a complex economic, political, cultural, and geographic process in which the mobility of capital, organizations, ideas, discourses, and people has taken a global or transnational form (Valentine Moghadam 1999). Globalization has more negative effects on women in third world countries such as Kenya and Bangladesh. Corporations hire people in the third world countries, due to the cheap labor force. Corporations like to hire more women than men in the cheap labor force, because women “work in labor intensive industries at lower wages

One of the most successful efforts to reduce and more effectively measure poverty has been Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) in New York City. This paper will explain how CEO was and still is so successful in combatting poverty and will argue that its tactics should be implemented in cities across the nation. Poverty is one of the most important issues that the modern world has attempted to confront. For the most part it has been a huge success. Extreme global poverty has been cut in half in the past 20 years. This statistic is staggering, and not enough people realize how successful industrialization and the globalized world have been at eradicating extreme poverty. While this should be celebrated, there is a different problem that the United States faces while looking inward. The poverty rates within inner cities have not been following the global trends and decreasing, rather they have been on the rise. CEO has been able to turn New York City from one of the nations highest poverty rates in large cities to one of the lowest. For this reason their tactics should be looked at closely as a model for cities across the nation and across the world.

There is no topic in present international relations that attracts more noise than the concept of globalization. This is because of its deep controversial nature. Many scholars argue that advocates of globalization argue that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise their standards of living, while antagonists of it contend that the creation of an unregulated international free market has profited multinational corporations in the Western world at the expense of local enterprises, local cultures, and common people.

"Since 2006, more than 500 Bangladeshi workers have died in factory fires, according to Clean Clothes Campaign, an anti-sweatshop advocacy group in Amsterdam. Experts say many of the fires could have easily been avoided if the factories had taken the right precautions. Many factories are in cramped neighborhoods and have too few fire escapes, and they widely flout safety measures. The industry employs more than three million workers in Bangladesh, most of them women.

As the societies and technology progress, the global market continues to expand every day. Globalization in its current state seems to be a dichotomy of wishing to help poverty on a global scale and wishing to use its existence to get ahead. Nonetheless, the line is too often blurred between the two. Alison Brysk begins her academic book Globalization and Human Rights with her own definition, saying, “Globalization is a package of transnational flows of people, production, investment, information, ideas and authority” (1). Fueled by the strict laws and regulations regarding labor practices in countries such as those in Europe and America, many businesses in the industrialized world look toward developing countries with the least labor regulations for production purposes. This phenomenon has become known as the “race to the bottom” in major media. As multinational corporations attempt to get ahead through this process, it has exacerbated global inequity by providing workers in developing countries with the production company’s minimum wages and protections. This growing issue caused by particular industries will be given as context before showing the ways global inequity can be combatted on an individual business level and a governmental level.

After placing their entire existence in peril, by giving up educational rights, risking their health, and losing their childhood these child earn as little as 0.35cents a day. Mikhail Bakunin once said that "Children do not constitute anyones property: they are neither the property of their parents, nor of the society. They belong only to their own future freedom." Unfortunately for the children of India they will forever be slaves to these rock mines or sewing industries. This is all they know. They have been deprived for so long of education, health and their own childhood that they forgot about their own future freedom like Mikhail Bakunin says. Child labor in India should be called child murder, murder of the child’s childhood, murder of the child’s health and most importantly murder of the child’s

• Primary commodities have fallen in price, or stayed steady, while commodities they need has increased, e.g. oil

The venerable Justice Bhagwati 's words strike a chord which has unfortunately been found lacking in too many people who have and still keep on having children as labourers. Child labour is a serious problem throughout the world (an estimated 158 million children between five and fourteen are engaged in child labour – which is one in six children in the world) and it would be no understatement to say that India contributes largely to this force of child labourers. It is pertinent to note that these children work at the cost of their right to education leaving them in a viscous poverty cycle and expectedly, without literacy and education which are essential for better-paying jobs and uplifting, the children are stuck in a rut. In many developed countries, it is considered inappropriate or exploitative if a child below a certain age works (excluding household chores, in a family shop, or school-related work).