Individual report Topic: globalization Topic question: Does globalization cause poverty? Name: warnakulasuriya Sithum Vihanga Fernando Globalization Does globalization cause poverty? Introduction The world seems to be struggling with poverty because of globalization and negative effects of it , and globalization seems to be badly impact on developing countries which doesn’t have proper income to full fill their basic needs. Global poverty must be stopped taking best solution in many ways to solve poverty. This project will be going through the causes which affects poverty and the consequences and also include global perspectives, national perspectives and other different perspectives as well about globalization which cause poverty. Causes There seems to be so many causes of poverty like limited capacity of the government as well as poor education and many more. Billions of people enjoy affluent style, more than tenth of the world’s population live in extreme poverty today. The poorest people in other countries are almost always at greatest risk from environmental damage like climate change and competition for resources. The world’s poorest countries tend to have the largest family sizes and fertility rates (as shown in the picture below) . They often have children to ensure they will be looked after when they are older. The poverty in Somalia’s is 97.90% , it is one of the countries’ with high poverty and low population. Consequences There are many people who are suffering from diseases because of poverty. The impact on global poverty, moving an estimated 49 million people into extreme poverty. People deal with some diseases because of poverty and some are malaria and tuberculosis. This is caused by poor health conditions. These diseases might affect people because of the bad environment they are living in. in other hand people aren’t being able to afford for education, food, health care and job security. In other words high population growth can trap individuals, small communities and even entire countries which are still developing. This is mostly caused for countries like Somalia. Global perspective Adonis Quality Life (AQL) has decided to donate money for countries which are suffering with poverty. They are focusing on initiating community solutions to help vulnerable people have a better life. As a charitable organization, they focus on community projects covering different aspects. The project will be resolving social strife, which includes food, water and lack of other supplies which are needed for a rural location like in Somalia. AQL thinks that “we all believe that no one should live a deplorable life when we can team up together and improve”. National perspectives Some commentators have been critical of ‘methodological nationalism’, thinking that is bounded by the constraints of the nation-state. Countries define the scope for legitimate social action, the limits of social responsibility and the effective means of achieving social ends. The nature of poverty is constituted by social relationships such as low status, social exclusion, insecurity and lack of rights. Zoran Milanovic (president of Croatia) discusses ways of reducing poverty. First concept, treat all nationals as equivalent. Concept 2, weights counties according to their population. Concept 3, disregards nationality. The human population have increase from 5 billion to 8 billion between 1990 and 2022. The number of people in low human have fallen down from 3 billion to 926 million. Different perspectives A new international community prepared new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), having the question of “how we measure poverty became more important than ever before?” one of the conclusions of ATD’s is that some global statistics are very uncertain and in addition, the $1.90 a-day indicator of extreme poverty is deeply flawed. With people living in poverty, we can include them as partners in building knowledge on development and with government and international organizations, to ensure that multidimensional measure of poverty are included in international sustainable development goals. Cause of action In 2024, it is likely that there will not be enough food supply in the system which will push global food prices more higher than usual. The Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have caused to rise in hunger and the price in every product or service they have. According to the WFP“22million people are at risk of starvation in most of the countries as the annual needs are increased from $4.3 billion to $6 billion”. Somalia is one of the countries with one of the worst droughts on record and food price shocks are pushing Somalia toward famine. “Famine (IPC Phase 5) is projected to emerge in three areas in southern Somalia in April-June 2023 if current high levels of multi-sect oral humanitarian assistance are not sustained.” Source evaluation I have gone through many secondary research until this point of the report and all the websites that I have gone through is up-to-date, Examples are, “AQL” (Adonis quality life) and “Trust bridge global.” Personal reflection For this report to be done, I have gone through many secondary resources. This really helped me get to know about things what causes poverty and some few possibilities about how this problem can be resolved with some global perspectives that I have gone through. This made me realise the world should go through more poverty so people might feel how much bad poverty is. Conclusion I believe that the Russians invasion of Ukraine have caused various types of problems to every country by increasing the value of prices in every item. In other words I would like to imply that the world should be caused by more poverty than population so the human can know through what kind of problems that people are going through in poverty. As estimated in 2021, 698 million people are living in extreme global poverty and over one-fifth of population live below the higher price $5.50 poverty line (1,803 million as estimated), and over two-fifth live below the price of $3.20 per day ( around 3,293 million people). In the near future to make sure this is stopped there must be causes of action as we researched throughout this report. Word count: 1000 Bibliography Introduction Children & poverty https://www.compassion.com/poverty/global-povertydefinition.htm#:~:text=Global%20poverty%20is%20defined%20as,defined%20by%2 0the%20World%20Bank. Causes Poverty and development https://populationmatters.org/the-factsdevelopment/?gclid=CjwKCAiA5sieBhBnEiwAR9oh2o_CD-19FaBBqcHiZegAcOaFU6PAcIWn3DElT7cwzQbdKojrcQfWhoCJSEQAvD_BwE Consequences Trust bridge global https://www.trustbridgeglobal.com/blog/2020/11/2/charitable-givingalternatives?gclid=CjwKCAiA5sieBhBnEiwAR9oh2tilwBLRKT-ZZC5cXryWHB9Bwz2c1LeHxwfTkhHI_-cFrnW7pnoNxoCVNUQAvD_BwE Global – poverty https://www.we.org/en-US/our-work/we-schools/we-schools-campaigns-andcurriculum/issues-details/global-poverty Poverty and development https://populationmatters.org/the-factsdevelopment/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAorKfBhC0ARIsAHDzslttUWcb3MTClUlvlfNZlyQVCmrc1 g7L-6ErgBuNJoZuWMilz71jRj4aAoRnEALw_wcB Global perspectives Adonis quality life initiative https://adonisinitiative.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiA5sieBhBnEiwAR9oh2v6FTV3ydJ66n4nKZ 6C_-XsRb0ZM0lXJ1moMTZtvnzyAwuCTnY0SwRoCpRAQAvD_BwE National perspectives Policy press scholarship https://academic.oup.com/policy-press-scholarship-online/book/31561/chapterabstract/264712919?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false Policy press scholarship online https://academic.oup.com/policy-press-scholarship-online/book/31561?login=false Cambridge university press https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/poverty-of-nations/poverty-innational-perspective/06D86E4868522C42DAACA3612AB536DA Different perspectives Dimensions of poverty https://www.atd-fourthworld.org/international-advocacy/dimensions-ofpoverty/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA22eBhClARIsAGLQ2RlrdBq0xo7EwpNEy3M06Wob2ncEvrBO_yUVPnfnW7UWPrqiMHT5-IaAlQEEALw_wcB Cause of action People experiencing poverty https://disasterphilanthropy.org/resources/people-experiencing-poverty Conclusion Development initiatives https://devinit.org/resources/adapting-aid-to-end-poverty/conclusion
