Developing country

conditions (Merriam Webster). 1.3 million children aged 5-17 in Bangladesh are engaged in hazardous labour. Children and adults alike are given no choice but to work in unethical factories creating clothing for large international corporations. Developing countries such as India, Bangladesh and China are found with countless amounts of sweatshops. Sweatshops are unjust and unethical because of the unsafe and uncomfortable work conditions, long hours with low wages and the use of child labour.…

themselves in many ways, one of which ways is underdevelopment. Countries that are underdeveloped are be defined as: “a nation or sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index relative to other countries” (Wikipedia). These countries suffer because of this in all areas from education to technology and monetary concerns. It is a fact that there are countries who are classified as developing. There are many reasons for this unfortunate occurrence that…

defined by the Economist as: “…an indicator of a country’s output capabilities is the ratio between the productivity of a benchmark country (such as the United States) and that of a less developed economy.” (Economist, 2013) Therefore, it is compared by the average output produced per hour for an individual employee and then compared against the other competitor countries. Productivity is measured by comparing the Gross…

this way. One reason is that suicide rates in third world or undeveloped countries are on average lower. Lakshmi Vijayakumar, an award winning psychiatrist, published an article entitled Suicide Prevention: The Urgent Need in Developing Countries, in the World Psychiatric Association 's journal. She states that suicide rates are much higher in developed countries.Vijayakumar’s article is about spikes of suicide rates in countries that are becoming developed. She talks about the differences in…

Sweatshops are necessary to improve the condition of third world countries. Sweatshops are the workplaces where workers are forced to work for low wages, overtime and in unhealthy and unsafe work condition. However, sweatshops also offer many benefits. They offer a way to escape from poverty, best possible job and to be intellectually developed. Sweatshops have transformed the economy of many underdeveloped countries to developed ones. Not a long ago, Hong-Kong and Singapore were having a number…

Child labor is most commonly associated with a negative connotation, with elements such as unskilled labor by very young children in very poor conditions. This is true to a certain extent, the labor laws in lesser developed countries are not very child favorable and are different than those in the United States of America. The global number of children in child labour has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children ( International Labor Organization). In the case…

is some cultures see the act of cutting or mutilating females genitals as a norm or necessity. In underdeveloped countries the usage of such act are so normal that they don’t view it as being barbaric or dangerous like we would here in the US. There has been known acts of Female Genital Mutilation by immigrants here in the US, who have fled their country but still keep their countries practices and views. These unlawful procedures have so many unhealthy risk and side effects…

between 1st and 3rd world countries. The ‘perception–behavior link’ described by T.Chartrand and J Bargh (the Chameleon effect 1990 ) explains how societies adopt common perceptions which in turn shapes their behaviour. The large scale social perceptions can therefore shape the behaviour of societies in response to the Ebola…

Colonial Period consisted of European countries going to countries within the Eastern World and imperializing many countries within Africa and Asia. These European countries imperialized those countries to compete with fellow European countries, gain raw materials from the Eastern countries, and have access to a larger market. The legacies that the imperial world left was destruction of the culture of African and Asian countries, a rapid growth for the countries of the colonizers and weakened…

the atmosphere does not stay fixed in space and it attempts to remain well mixed, even if your country decides to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, while other countries around the world continue to add GHGs to the atmosphere you’ll still feel the effect of these other countries. Moreover, having the most or least emissions doesn’t linearly align with the effect that GHGs will have on a given country, as some are far more susceptible to climate change than…