Use Of Comparative Data System On National He Policy Making

WORLD BANK: governments play an important role in development, but there is no simple set of rules telling them what to do.

~ Today the bank functions as an international organization that attempts to fight poverty by offering developmental assistance to middle and poor-income countries. By giving loans, and offering advice and training in both the private and public sectors, the World Bank aims to eliminate poverty by helping people

In the case of the proposal to fund Brazil with dams, irrigation, power, roads, and funds to develop crops the World Bank has those funds. As a representative of the World Bank, this proposal is currently not very wise and the impact it will have on the people of Brazil will not be a positive one, and that it will not yield a great return to the World Bank unless some adjustments to the proposal are made.

International development and underdevelopment are major issues in global society today. John Perkins’ book The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a very critical account on the activities of private corporations such as MAIN and international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and how many actions are based on self-interest, corruption and greed. The book does an exceptional job at giving us an insider’s perspective on why debt induced developing nations are in a constant state of underdevelopment from the corrupt actions of Economic Hit Men and their colleagues Jackals who deal with the dirty side of the business and political economics. Global economics and debt have

Every year sub-Saharan Africa receives around $134bn in loans, foreign investment and development aid, according to the UN. Nonetheless, sub-Saharan Africa is still the poorest region in the world. For many years the international community has debated over the reasons why every year billion and billions of dollars are not taking sub-Saharan Africans out of poverty. Three major groups have prevailed in the discussion. First, the people who totally blame Africa for not doing its job right, completely forgetting that most of the funds are not administrated by Africans. Second, the people who believe that even though aids are not working, the international community should keep investing funds in Africa even if is failing; one day they will work.

This never-ending cycle of debt is the reality for most, if not all of Third World countries. In the 1970’s, Western banks loaned out huge sums of money to Third World nations with the intention of one day making profit. And they succeeded.

Next, let us discuss comparative data. Comparative data can be defined as data that can be used for

Education is one of the most important things you can have in this world. Some people don’t have it, but those who do, choose how they want to use it. Some countries push their students to various limits, plus they set various standards for their students.While some can be exceedingly low compared to the rest of the world, some can be superbly high compared to the rest. A documentary called 2 Million Minutes spotlights how three country superpowers, USA, India, and China examines how their students prepare for their life thereafter high school. While the USA is doing great things when it comes to education, it is no match correlated to the other two countries.

Within the past few weeks of my social statistics class I have had the amazing opportunity of learning about various validities and data’s. The three validities in which I learned about were, internal, external and construct. I will explain these validities as well as experimental data and their usefulness in the world. Lastly, I will explain how one of these data could be useful to me in resolving an issue that I may meet in life.

Education is seen as the gateway to economic well being, making the quality of the education provided a more important issue in need of attention in both developed and developing countries. Economic growth and poverty reduction cannot prevail without an educated and skilled workforce. In developing countries, one additional year of education adds approximately 10 percent to a person’s earnings (A Global Impact on Learning 2011). Thus it is imperative that developing countries invest in the education of its people so that its entire country can prosper.

Far from being seen as objective entities, the World Trade Organization (WTO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Bank are often conceptualized as instruments of the developed world. It is alleged that they are used to enforce crippling economic policies upon the developing world. To some extent, it is perhaps inevitable that these international institutions are seen as such. The memory of colonial exploitation in Latin America, Africa, and other developing nations runs deep, and the power dynamic of these institutions relative to the nations they are ostensibly helping often echoes the relationship of the colonizing to the colonized.

It is not the loans themselves that have been shown to increase poverty and inequality (see Table 1) but instead the macroeconomic conditions attached to them (Crisp & Kelly, 1999). For example, in order for a country to receive aid from the WB they are required to do several of the following: raise food prices to cut the burden of subsidies, privatize all or part of state-owned enterprises (Peabody, 1996), raise the price of public services (Creese, 1991), cut public sector budgets, reduce tax on foreign investment, devalue local currency, and cut wages (Pfeiffer & Chapman, 2010). These conditions are a way for the WB to establish accountability and to ensure that the loans they are giving to countries are being used for policies that the WB sees as part of good development. In theory, the concept of SAPs is perceived as being necessary and important, but in practise it has not showed the aspired results.

The world undeniably becomes “smaller” and “tighter” due to the prosperity of technology and economics, by population movement, information exchange, as well as physical and virtual good trade-offs. In order to be successful when facing the opportunities and challenges in the global and informational age, it is not only helpful but even necessary to use international comparison as an effective public policy tool for administrators and policymakers in the field of Higher Education. Without using international comparison, the educational development speed and potential might be decreased, possible problems happened in other countries might be repeated in our country with large scales of cost and the whole country’s international soft strength and competitive capability might be threatened because of comparatively less competitive human capital, which is mainly produced from higher education.

Since its opening loan of $250 million to France for post-war reconstruction in 1947, the World Bank has always declared its two primary goals as to “end extreme poverty within a generation and boost shared prosperity” (World Bank, 2014). The World Bank is first and foremost a bank - a business – whose primary interest is in making money, and in this profit-first business model the Bank imposes upon the sovereignty of foreign countries by forgoing its own policies by violating human rights, causing environmental degradation and implementing policies involving conditionality on to all loaned funds. Much of the Global

The continued indebtedness of developing countries results in the inability to address the growing poverty and inequality problem within these countries. The policies these developing countries are forced to implement keep them poor and powerless in the global economy (Odutayo, 2015, 88). These programs produce a vicious cycle where these indebted countries are forced to implement detrimental neo liberal economic policies that result in poverty and debt being a permanent condition of the developing world (Manji, Fiorze, Burnett, 2010, 10). In 2002, the North received around $200 billion American dollar from the South in debt repayment (Odutayo, 2015, 88). In Ghana one third of its export revenue goes to the IMF and the reaming profits go to the the Bretton Woods Institution and G7 members (Harrigan & Younger, 2000, 198). With developing countries contributing their export revenue to loan repayments, they are unable to address any