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From 2001 to 2007 China’s trade with Africa increased 681%, much in line with Chinese rapid growth rate during that period. Since becoming a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), China’s rapid growth has become significant in the African continent and the global economy (Geda & Meskel, 2009). This emerging pattern of trade seems to suggest China’s need for Africa’s raw materials to sustain its economic…

In my elementary school, I have seen only a select few kids receive free or reduced lunch. The students who did receive this were the kids who you could clearly tell were on the poverty-stricken side. It was noticeable because these particular kids would be wearing the same clothes multiple days in a row, come to school dirty, and would even show behavioral issues. Personally, in my school, it was very popular to bring a cold lunch to school. My friends and I would be trading our fruit snacks…

Africa, the poor are getting poorer and poverty is increasing (Costello, 2001). These countries don’t have the resources, information and capabilities to join the global network, therefore are falling further and further behind as the rest of the world advances (Weinstein, 2005). Consumer demand is constantly changing. One week everybody wants the new iPhone 7 that’s just been released, and next week everybody’s dropped the new iPhone for the new Samsung with better features. Because of social…

Introduction: Globalization is the process of global economic and political integration which connects countries with the facilitation of global communications. As technology rapidly developed in the past centuries, trade globalization accelerated. Global trade becomes economically and politically important to all countries. As more and more developing and low-income countries enter into the global integration, there is always an ongoing debate on the relationship between globalization and…

This is mainly because the people who have been empowered through technical assistance choose to leave the government institution. For example, the result of the capacity building (which was funded by the World Bank as much as $9 billion loans and $900 million grants) was around 70,000 highly qualified government officials leave the continent annually (Werlin 2009, p. 503). Moreover, some technical assistance becomes useless because the government have no intention…

people that make them for us live in extremely poor conditions? Children and Developing Countries are heavily impacted by globalization because they are the easiest to change and be altered due to outside countries views. Children, out of all age groups, are the easiest to influence into a certain way of thinking. This is why kids are schooled at a young age, because this information has a better chance of sticking with them for life. But with this ability, there also comes a negative.…

Midterm Essay Structural violence occurs when social forces harm or create a disadvantage for people. Neoliberalism is a key part of causing structural violence. In Haiti, this concept causes the impoverished communities to lack in agency, resort to risky behaviours, and endure the tyranny of the powerful military men. The result of structural violence is an increase in health disparities and untimely deaths among Haitians. In Paul Farmer’s Pathologies of Power, Acephie Joseph and Chouchou Louis…

inevitable and mainly positive, whereas other critics seem to have slightly different views. As YaleGlobal Online describes globalization is “propelled by the desire to improve one’s life and helped along by technology… this increasing integration of the world has enriched life but also created new problems.” As one can see, globalization is highly contested, but there are undeniable good results and bad results, depending on which aspect one is looking at. In order to understand globalization…

Thomas (2009) demonstrated in his article that, in many developing nations at present, the government and the private sector provide health care jointly. Public health institutions are the only hope for the poor people. The majority of the developing nations are overwhelmed by problems of malnutrition and mass infections. Outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases provide an evidence of the poor sanitation of the community and access to safe drinking water is unimaginable for millions even today. Using…

Mike Davis’s book Planet of Slums does a good job at analyzing world urbanization, poverty and describing the conditions in which the poorest people on earth live in, however I disagree with his opinion that the slums are a lost cause. In the book Davis, which is an urban historian, seeks to provide a better understanding of the rapidly increasing urban population, the extreme levels of poverty, and exploitation of the poor around the world. His book had a deep impact in how I define poverty as…