Social Justice And Global Poverty

Social justice theories and concepts help us to understand global poverty as a social justice issue by giving the society and its governing people a insightful and more detailed way of looking at how global poverty came to be such a huge social justice issue and how this can be combated. Social justice theories and concepts in relation to equality and social structure show how certain parts of some societies have been heavily affected in a negative and positive way due to their governments policies and laws. Social justice theories and concepts give people a different view of looking at global poverty as they make it easier to grasp the issues and how global poverty became a major problem throughout the world in history and through concepts …show more content…
This documentary investigates how global poverty is clearly the result of the economic policies in place of the countries that colonised most nations around the world including Britain, Spain and America. This documentary shows how the concept of wealth and the economic structure in these nations rippling effect into smaller and younger nations and progressively makes the issue of poverty a global problem. The documentary deals with the problem of colonialism and how it has a huge ripple effect on the indigenous generations today considering how in many places such as Sub-Saharan Africa, India and many more nations still implore a way of slave labour and struggle to eat everyday along with getting basic health …show more content…
This social concept of globalization helps people see how this concept made a huge impact on equality and social structure and most importantly how global poverty became the worlds biggest Issue. The book shows how policies from large companies such as the world bank, IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the WTO (World Trade Organisation) tie in with globalisation and make a profit in keeping the global south poor and in debt to them since colonialism and introducing neoliberalism. The author argues that the global south will not be able to catch up in the race of globalisation unless the global north make an effort to reduce the debt along with rejecting the global north’s neoliberal policies that make it easier for the global north to effectively govern the global south in terms of trade, labor and