Jarron Jackson

3/29/16
Globalization
Professor Onyeji
Does Globalization benefit everyone?

With Globalization, it certainly affects everyone along with being a

factor when it comes to production and how the world runs. With it being
around, the big question that comes is if it is helpful not only to the high
caliber countries that can make products, but also to the lower end countries
that struggle with production and have to depends on other countries for
goods and services.

According to Jerry Mander, Debi Baker, and David Korten who wrote the
article Does Globalization help the Poor, They assert that the millions of
people who have visibly opposed the economic globalization model are
harming the interests of the poor. Everyone should please back off and leave
it to corporations, bankers and global bureaucracies to do the planning and
solve the world's problems. They have also implemented that poverty and
inequality are rapidly accelerating everywhere on earth. A 1999 report by the
United Nations Development Program found that inequalities between rich
and poor within and among countries are quickly expanding, and that the
global trading and finance system is one of the primary causes for bring

massive inequalities. The ideologies and rules of economic globalization,

including free trade, deregulation, privatization, and structural adjustment,
have destroyed the livelihoods of millions of people, often leaving them
homeless, landless and hungry, while removing their access to even the
most basic public services such as health and medical care, education,
sanitation, fresh water, public transport, and job training, showing that
economic globalization makes things worse for the poor, not better.

Another article, Globalization is only a good thing if it benefits all

groups of Society, from Economist Salman Sakir of the Huffington Post
believes that Globalization has had a tremendous positive impact on poverty
reduction. The increasing integration of developing countries to the world
economy has led to a reduction in extreme poverty. The citizens of
developed countries have benefited from globalization through the purchase
of goods and services produced in developing countries. Large, developing
countries like the BRICS have enormously benefited from globalization while
the economies of developed countries have grown substantially. However,
globalization has led to the emergence of some problems in both developed.
Offshoring and Outsourcing have been a major thing. The shift of
manufacturing out of developed countries has led to loss of manufacturing
base in the developed countries. This deindustrialization has adversely
affected certain regions that were more reliant on manufacturing like Detroit.
Along with that, the rapid industrialization in developing countries has led to

increased environmental pollution and unplanned urbanization in some of

the developing countries. Many of these developing countries are faced with
polluted rivers and air. This has led to increased sickness among their
citizens which raise their healthcare spending. Again, globalization may
sometimes lead to increased exploitation of workers in developing countries.

In conclusion, there is no clear answer to where if globalization

definitely benefits everyone. It can benefit lower level counties by helping
them expand and also being able to provide the country with more goods
and services and slowing companies to be able to manufacture there for free
trade, but it also has it negatives by air pollution and not giving the citizens
the requirements or things that they need. With that being said, globalization
can be seen as a good situation that can also hurt.
References
Does Globalization Help the Poor? (n.d.). Retrieved March 30, 2016,
from
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Globalization/DoesGlobaliz_HelpPoor
.html
Globalization Is Only a Good Thing If It Benefits All Groups of
Society. (n.d.). Retrieved March 30, 2016, from
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/salmansakir/globalization_b_5992002.html