One of my important research pieces is Human Development Report 2007/2008 from United Nations Development Program. This report contains detailed information about global poverty statistics. For example, there are about 1 billion people who living with $1 US for their income and richest 20% around the world earned three quarter of global income. Also, this report mentions about statistics of Nutrition, child mortality, and Health which was all causes by poverty.
This research piece is very valuable to me because it contains reliable information about poverty around the world right now. The report itself doesn't focus on global poverty but international issues like climate change however it is still useful source to me. Also, this report is valuable because it answers my questions about how serious poverty is around the world? And what are important statistical facts that I can found about it? I found this report from the website in globalissue.org, the author of the website made the link to this report so it wasn’t hard to find at all.
Dr. Susan Hawley’s article of corruption is also one of my valuable research pieces. In this article, she focuses on growing corruptions of multinational companies which came from privatization of public enterprise. Also, she focused on governmental corruption which originated from Western government in most of the time and global organizational corruption like World Bank and International Monetary Fund which highly influenced by western government. Moreover, she mentioned about how global policies used as tools for corruption.
Even though this article provides very interesting piece of information to me, I’m not going to use all the portion of this article because it is talked about corruption itself so some of the topics are not related to global poverty. The portion that I’m definitely going to use is the Global Policies and Corruption part. I think this part is more suitable for my project because it provide the categories of concepts that affect poor countries economy which lead to poverty. This part gives me a brief explanation about what policies discourage the poor countries to escape the poverty. As same as Human Development Report 2007/2008, I found this article from the website that linked by author.
Our World is very lopsided in terms of economic. According to Human Development Report 2007/2008, there are about 1 billion people who lived with $1 US dollar a day. Also, while 40 percent of population around the world makes 5 percent of global incomes, wealthiest 20 percent earn more than three-quarter of global income. Why is this income inequality happening? Dr. Hawley wrote article that explains one of the factors of this incomprehensible incident: Corruption. Dr Hawley’s article focused a variety of different form of corruption. In her article, she mentions about global policies that proposed by World Bank and International Monetary Fund which lead to eliminate the chance for poor countries to grow economically and able to support their people and ultimately reduce the poverty rate.
Hawley S. (2000). Exporting corruption: Privatisation, multinationals and bribery. The Corner House, 19. Retrieved from http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/briefing/19bribe.pdf
Watkins K. (2007). Human Development Report 2007/2008. New York: United Nations Development Program.
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David, these are excellent sources. You've both summarized and responded to them well.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit concerned about the synthesis, only because there are no in-text citations. However, I suspect that this was merely an oversight.