The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0306-8293.htm A relationship between current globalisation, unemployment, inequality and poverty Wilfred I. Ukpere and Andre D. Slabbert Faculty of Business, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town, South Africa Abstract Purpose – This paper contends that there is a positive relationship between current globalisation, unemployment, inequality and poverty, which paves a vista for
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Social Justice Issue- Poverty Poverty can be defined as the state of a person when their basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter are neglected (World Health Organisation, 2015). The social justice issue of poverty is often associated with other countries, but many do not realise that poverty is a concerning issue in Australia as well (World Health Organisation, 2015). Australia is often called the 'lucky country' as it is a safe, peaceful and fair place to live- however this not always the
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Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel? (Photo courtesy of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts) by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, Special to ProPublica, Jan. 2, 2013, 12 a.m. * 0 Comments * Republish * Email * Print Connect with Facebook to share articles you read on ProPublica. Learn more » * * * * 1 inShare This story was co-published with Foreign Policy. Accra is a city of choking red dust where almost no rain falls for three months at a time and clothes hung
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not just a problem in the so-called Third World. It is not just a problem in countries with a high rate of poverty, such as Haiti; that is a stereotype that can prevent wealthier nations from intervening and putting an end to this blight. Human trafficking is a problem that can be found in the United States and other industrialized Western nations. It is a problem that can be found on a global scale, a problem that requires micro and macro strategies to intervene and eliminate. Human
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factors that impinge on the issue of poverty, the analysis of which relates to problems of social integration of all members of society in the Caribbean. In its preparation, use has been made not only of the most recent data, but also of data relevant to periods, such as to detect trends of social development in terms of poverty and the direction of the process of social integration. This I.A. investigates the causes and effects, and solutions to, Poverty. Poverty is the state or condition of
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Chapter 8 Moral Principle 5: Option for the Bottom of the Pyramid 69. Is poverty a global issue? Poverty is a human condition of having insufficient resources or income. In its most extreme form, poverty is a lack of basic human needs, such as adequate and nutritious food, clothing, housing, clean water, and health services. 70. How poor are those in the bottom of the pyramid? Nearly three billion human beings live on less than two dollars a day. The GDP of the poorest 48 nations is less than
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market instability across the globe with huge socio-economic and human costs. 3. Political and ideological tensions emanating from the undesirable manifestations of the evolving global order. 4. The mismatch between the economic and financial system and the historic institutions that have been designed to govern the global economic and financial system. 5. Etc.. The Dichotomy of Economic Globalization Increasingly, the welfare of nations is becoming inter-dependent. This has been a process
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Globalization takes hold, many countries across the globe are seeing a marketable increase in trade with other countries, countries that are not necessarily their neighbors. Individual nations are exporting more globally and becoming more active in global markets. Foreign direct investment is also a key factor in Globalization. As the world markets become more and more accessible, many investors are looking outside of their homeland portfolios and investing in foreign markets and business ventures
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address pressing issues of poverty. The MDGs are made up of eight major objectives, which are all related to global development. In 2000, 189 world leaders signed a Millennium Declaration. The leaders set 2015 as the deadline for achieving the set MDGs. There has been a mixed result of the progress towards attaining these goals. One of the major achievements has been achieved is that there has been a major reduction of people living in extreme poverty. Accordingly, the proportion of poverty fell to less
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the Chinese economy and the development of technology, in recent years, Chinese economic and environmental issues are undeniably caused by economic globalization. (Chen & Ge, 2010; Lessmann, 2013). Foxconn, a representative company of manufacturing industry in China, is a beneficiary and victim of FDI and open trade (Guo, 2012). This case analyzes the labor and the environmental issue of Foxconn caused by FDI and open trade, and recommends the future strategies for Foxconn. Background Foxconn
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