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Instead of catering interest of Fortune 500 companies, I am inspired to connect civilization through international development and entrepreneurship. By studying economic and political science, I can advocate for the prosperity of the greater international community. Not only can a single government legislation influence the entire global market, economics and its analytics can also dictate political structures and regulations. Furthermore, it connects my passion of social and technological entrepreneurship with my love for foreign relations. Through peaceful diplomacy and innovation, I want to empower and connect millions of people around the

In his book, "Promises not kept" Isbister explains to us that most of the people living in poverty stricken Asia, South America, and Africa are plagued by disease, danger and uncertainty. Isbister asks us the question of why social change in the third world has come to a halt and how come there is massive and swelling poverty that continues to plague almost all of the developing countries. Social scientists have developed different approaches to help understand why there is poverty in the third world and also to help seek out the answers to why poverty keeps on persisting.

Poverty is an issue that has affected society since civilization was first created. Even with a globalized economy and economic opportunity prevalent nearly everywhere, there is still a vast majority of people who live in financial strain. According to recent information obtained by the World Bank, “10.7% of the world’s population live on less than US $1.90 a day”(World Bank 2013). In the United States considered the wealthiest nation on Earth, the poverty rate is 12.7% which is 40.6 million people(US Census Bureau 2016). Though some people are in poverty because of their own choices, poverty is a result of structural institutional practices in place.

In the late 20th century, technology began advancing so quickly that entire world economies underwent extraordinary transformations in very little time. It used to be only a handful of powerful people and corporations interacting in global trade and commerce, but technology has made it so “countries like India are now able to compete for global knowledge,” giving leaders and companies the ability to work with more nations than ever before (Friedman 7). The internet has given men and women the power to connect, communicate and provide information to people across the planet in an instant. It has given people the opportunity to seek knowledge, educate themselves and single-handily play a role in the world economy. This is called

As Peter Edelman writes in “The State of Poverty in America,” in the United States, 20.5 million individuals of the population are in poverty, including 6 million with no income (1). Numerous poor individuals are in desperate need of essential opportunities. In contrast, the rich in the United States are moving up and becoming successful in their livelihood. The differences in the opportunities given to the rich and taken from the poor are ongoing. Opportunities include difficulties in achieving proper education, medicine, and/or jobs.

Back to last week we had read two articles in the new world reader. Both are talking about how American seize the richness by taking advantage from the cheap labor in other nation. By reading over the article “the noble feat of Nike” written by Johan Nordberg. We know human are greedy. In the story we saw the wealthy company in United States, they won’t be satisfy with the riches them have，neither in the future. So, company set up a lot of factory in other poor nation, what we call “third world”. The goal of this investment in the third world is in order to increase the amount of their money, and success in capitalism globalization more effectively, all due to squeezing the resource in other nation such as human resources. What if those American company or factory ran out the business in third world, will life be better .Therefore this is the article that I chose to write.

2) In the interview with the Mises Institute called, “Sweatshops: A Way Out of Poverty,” Powell talks about how living standards rise in areas with sweatshops as well as how sweatshops actually pay well in comparison to other jobs (Powell,

We often see the world evolve around people who are unprepared for its transformation. I grew up in Peru, where access to microcredit for poor entrepreneurs with brilliant business ideas is scarce. I spent two years in South Africa, where starting a business consists of waiting over 200 days to get electricity set up. Working on Panama, I have seen locals fight for jobs in a Canal condemned by international contractors.

Hand in Hand is a non-profit organization which specializes in fighting poverty through job creation. In order to combat poverty, they created four fundamental components encompassed in their “Job Creation Model”: social mobilization, business training, credit access, and market lineage support. As a result, they created 2.3 million jobs and 1.6 million businesses in nearly ten

Johnson & Johnson it 's expanding to help individuals around the world with their resources. They are currently working to establish their operations in Africa with

Having grown up in a small town in China in the 1990s, I witnessed many people’s lives were completely changed thanks to economic development. As one of the beneficiaries of China’s fast economic growth, I’ve been longing for a career that will allow me to help to understand development issues and solve poverty in poorer countries since I was a kid. Therefore, the World Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity strongly resonate with me. It has been a dream for me to be part of the World Bank family. Now after years of graduate study and work experience, I have accumulated the knowledge, technical skills and professional experience to make real contributions to the mission of solving global poverty. I believe I will be an ideal candidate for the Young Professionals program because I will bring to the World Bank community my great passion for international development, strong analytical skills in economics and my perspectives on development based on prior work experience in developing Asia.

Unfortunately, it was estimated that roughly 1.2 billion people in 1993 lived in extreme or absolute poverty, that which Robert McNamara regards “‘a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable standard of human dignity’” (Singer 219, 220). These estimates can be projected at nearly 2 billion today. A large majority of the people living in absolute poverty resides in underdeveloped countries. Among the nearly 4.4 billion people in these countries, “3/5 lives in societies lacking basic sanitation; 1/3 go without safe drinking water; 1/4 lack adequate housing; 1/5 are undernourished, and 1.3 billion live on less than $1 a day” (Speth 1).

Poverty is a social problem that affects everyone on an economic, political and social level. The problem of human suffering is one that we must combat strategically on many levels. According to the United Nations, “in 2015 more than one billion people around the world live in a state of poverty, lacking the basic goods food, clothing, and shelter that humans need to survive” (“Poverty”). There are a great number of areas that keep individuals poor, such as lack of resources, inadequate income, lack of education, language barriers and the high cost of child care. Being able to work and provide basic necessities is our basic human right and we should not be deprived of these basic human rights that individuals need in order to live satisfying lives. The government has the responsibility of helping individuals in need with the economic assistance to feed, clothe, house, educate, provide health care and decent wages for every individual. They should ensure that individuals have access to resources that will help them build a better future. There are several ways that we can work together to strategically find solutions to end inequality among the poor individuals in our society.

Globalization can be seen as a major threat for manufacturing jobs in the developed world, however, can also be a benefit for developing world citizens who receive thousands of jobs a year although they don’t receive a high salary. Maurice Allais, a French economist states that this unemployment, of course, has only been able to develop because of the existence of low salaries and insufficient flexibility in the labor market (April 10th, 1999). This indicates that globalization has jeopardized Western countries jobs because companies are moving their establishments to developing countries where they don’t need to pay employees as much and where land is cheaper so overall businesses benefit from this. Also, employees in the developed world are at risk of becoming redundant as they are susceptible to face pay cuts in jobs. Employees are less skilled in the developing world as they don’t receive the benefit of an education like developed countries do. So a company may want to build factories in these countries because environmental laws aren’t as strict. Establishments in these areas provides promising jobs for the local people and allows them to learn new skills, however they are set on minimum wage which in developed world countries, this would not be enough to live on, wherein third world countries this is still a low amount so this is not enough to bring them out of poverty meaning that the only one who benefits from this is the company. Although there have been several arguments against exploitation and oppression, the majority of developing countries do not have existing laws which take minimum wage

Today, almost all of us are aware that our lives are being shaped by an interconnected world economy of cross-border flows of trade, finance and technology. In our hearts, we know that there is no going back.”