Developing country

Hannah Paul Christopher Varlack English 100 4 November 2014 Improving Developing Nations through Educating Girls While females are relegated worldwide, females in developing countries feel the effects of patriarchy more intensely than women in developed nations such as the United States. The proportionally high cost of education through tuition, school supplies, and low parental income in developing countries, such as India, Ethiopia and Pakistan, restricts the education of girls in impoverished families. If education is available, families in developing countries choose to give it to boys instead of girls. Since in many developing countries women hold subservient roles of mother, cook and housekeeper, many families believe it is a waste to…

A sweatshop is a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. As mentioned in the article, “The Noble Feat of Nike”, by Johan Norberg, globalization is the main key to open the multinational corporations and provide job opportunities to the workers especially in poor or developing countries. The goal of this multinational corporation is to bring trade agreement and friendly relationships…

Free trade is the unrestricted import and export of goods between countries without the fear of government intervention such as tariffs, duties or quotas. The notion of a free trade system encompassing several sovereign states originated in a draft form in 16th century Spain. An American jurist named Arthur Nussbaum noted that Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria was “the first to set forth the notions (though not the terms) of freedom of commerce and freedom of the seas.” However it was two…

Over the past couple of weeks, we looked at many different articles and studied about many difficulties faced in developing countries as a whole. But in most studies of political and economic growth of developing countries the challenges faced by children and woman are not properly addressed and often deemed unnecessary aspects of research. Much evidence of gender inequality exists in society, some of the worst cases are found in developing nations. Some might wonder what these challenges are…

health influence on the relationship associated with the breastfeeding, we can categorize it in two forms. One with the developed nations and others in the developing nations. World health organization has clearly given guidelines especially for the developing nations for nurturing kids. It has been depicted that culture influence the mothers in breastfeeding her child. Along with culture, ethnicity and race also effects the duration of feeding a child. Nurses play an important role in…

The way the we consume in western countries affects developing countries and the environment. There are a myriad of sweatshops currently working to produce a high demand of the goods that we purchase in our stores, these sweat shops are pervaded with human rights breaches and social inequalities. At this present moment, the main distributors of our consumer goods are China, Taiwan, India and Bangladesh among other places, almost any item that you purchase today will have one of these countries…

Globalization is the economy of interaction within the countries over the world and the integration of economics and societies in order to exploit the global economy (Scholte, 2005). Globalization contributed towards increasing and decreasing poverty and inequality in developing and post-communist countries. There are affirmative and negative effects for those countries which are able to attract foreign investors and foreign capital throughout globalization (Robertson, 1992). Economic…

Across the globe, the practice of implementing sweatshops in developing nations for companies from developed nations has been abundant. While not a new concept, many view this practice as immoral and unethical. However, that is the perspective of an individual in a modern, developed country. As well as, many do not understand that the alternatives to sweatshops are much more brutal and impoverished individuals gladly choose sweatshops over their other options such as sex work. That is the ugly…

have skirted around the economic impact that geography plays for developing nations. For many of these countries, their location contributes to the prevalence of tropical diseases. In order to overcome this obstacle, a developing country should focus its efforts on expanding the nation’s healthcare infrastructure by constructing a network of accessible and affordable medical and emergency services and dedicating resources to the research and development of vaccines against common tropical…

What are LDC’s? LDC’s also known as the least developed countries for example, Somalia, Afghanistan, Haiti and many more. A country is classified among the Least Developed Countries if it meets three criteria 1. Poverty – adjustable criterion based on GNI per capita averaged over three years. 2. Economic vulnerability (based on instability of agricultural production, instability of exports of goods and services, economic importance of non-traditional activities, merchandise export…