globalisation created global poverty/inequality

• Theme 1: For - economic globalisation

  • harms the world's poor because jobs created are low paid and bad working conditions
  • rana plaza collapse 2013 - bangladesh, structural failure when 8 story building collapsed killing 1,134 (some children) approximately 2,500 injured
  • considered deadliest garment factory disaster
  • global corporations to cut cost, send jobs abroad without additional safeguards and employment rights subject to in the west
• Theme 1: Against

  • unsafe job is better than no job at all, as people need money and may be only job to offer
  • companies have the moral obligation - more than enough money to offer fair wages and safe conditions but choose profit over people
  • many companies subscribe to fair trade standards
  • ben and jerry's ice cream - source its raw ingredients from farmers by paying a competitive wage, co-op - only sources fair trade cocoa for its chocolate
  • companies under more conditions and restrictions such as safety of working locations, minimum working age in places like bangladesh
• Theme 2: For - poverty

  • oxfam reports - poorest half of the world became 11% poorer, whilst billionaires fortune rose 12% or $2.5 billion every day
  • 8 men own more wealth than half of the world and 1 in 10 people survive on less than $2 a day
  • 7/10 people live in a country that has a seen a rise in inequality in last 30 years
  • 1988-2011 income of the poorest 10% increased y just $65 whilst income of richest 1% grew by $11,800 per person (182 times as much)
  • rule of thumb - much more likely to get higher paying job with more qualifications - some with less opportunities to get qualifications
• Theme 2: Against

  • nearly 1.1 billion fewer people living in extreme poverty than 1990
  • globalisation has bought entire countries out of poverty
  • merchandise trade as a share of world GDP grew from around 30% in 1988 to around 50% in 2013
  • 2001, US - vietnam free trade agreement reduced poverty in vietnam by increasing wage premiums in export sectors, spurring job reallocation from agriculture, forestry and fishing into manufacturing and stimulation enterprise job growth
  • in period of rapid globalisation average income grew by 24% globally, global poverty headcount ratio declined 35% to 10.7%
• Theme 3: For - corruption has become easier

  • economic globalisation made 'facilitation of corruption easier'
  • corruption can be facilitated though click of a button unlike in the past (transporting large sums of money across borders)
  • sub saharan africa remains poor because of corruption e.g. nigeria
  • goodluck jonathan administration - embezzled more than $6 billion while in office
  • former NSA, sambo dasuki supervised the looting of $2 billion in funds meant for procurement of arms for nigeria military
  • former dictator sani abacha believed to have stolen $5 billion from nigeria
• Theme 3: Against

  • countries working to fix these gaps in law
  • uk and russian money
  • u has recently passed a law to confiscate money than has come through suspicious means
  • uk housing market has been tightened up