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Global Inequality- by Ashkirat Singh

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As the world continues to be ‘globalized’ we are noticing issues in impoverished nations that might have been overlooked before. Additionally the climate crisis is playing a key role in making sure third world nations continue to experience inequality as they get hit with tsunami’s and other deadly storms that disrupt their development.

Financial aid is not always a winning ticket with impoverished nations. The immediate relief is effective to an extent in distributing essentials but how smart is an investment that you constantly throw money at and receive nothing in return? This money is going to things that are manufactured outside the poorer nation and as a result is exacerbating the inequality gap. When offering relief it is effective to support the nation after a crisis but ultimately providing jobs that will stay in the region is the goal. Why use a product that was manufactured on the other side of the world when the impoverished nation can produce it and benefit both from its new jobs and the relief from the product itself.

Education is policy that exacerbates global inequality. Each year in developed countries, most notably the United States, education is stressed from early readers to research institutions. As this world is being ‘globalized’ we are seeing a need for an ever increasing understanding of technology. There is no way for someone born into an impoverished nation to be able to keep up with someone born into a developed country when it comes to technology because of mere exposure time between the two.

The health issue is a double edged sword because although many diseases that haunted the past like polio have been eliminated, new ones emerge that cause even more disastrous effects like AIDS. The government now offers incentives to drug companies for vaccine development which will hopefully prove

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