How Does Globalization Impact Sub-Saharan Africa

A way to measure the amount of poverty in a certain country is by using the international poverty line. The World Bank monitors global poverty using the international poverty line which came about in 1990. The poverty line is based upon the national poverty lines of the poorest countries at a given point in time year after year. As this is tracked over a period time, the results produce a table which lists the poverty lines as well as the countries with a similar day earnings. These countries are then classified as the poorest countries in the world. When looking at the table, one can see that globalization has increasingly impacted sub-Saharan Africa. The countries that struggled to make a living in 2008 are still on the list in 2015. While these countries are struggling …show more content…
The second rebuttal is the lack of political governance that globalization brings with it to developing nations. This can be seen in Phiona’s life as well as Precious’s life. L’Huillier quotes Garfolo and L’Huillier, ‘through globalization poor countries have stagnated in terms of economic growth reflecting and resulting in: low productivity, rising income inequality, poor standards of living, unemployment, and poverty due to inequality of income distribution’ (L’Huillier 2016, 372). This can be directly seen throughout the movie. Kampala, Uganda may have a government but the ability for the government to enforce the law has escaped from the reality. Based upon the Uganda Crime & Safety Report, Uganda experienced a general increase in petty and violent crime, threats of political violence and a decrease in the general threat from regional and worldwide terrorism during 2016 (Overseas Security Advisory Council 2017). The report overall concluded that Kampala is a critical-threat location. This goes to prove that countries with little to no economic growth have a greatly higher