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Global South Problems

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INTRODUCTION
Global South is a post-World War II discourse which refers the societies which couldn’t successfully accomplish the political and economic goals of modernity either in the perspective of capitalist or socialist (Dirlik, p. 13). In simple words the countries located in the southern hemisphere except for Australia and New Zealand is known as the Global South. Global south is popular for its poverty. Countries located in this region are mostly underdeveloped or developing. One of the main reasons for this condition is the current trade policy. The newly emerged free trade policy is helping the western countries with easy access to resources of poor country and low labor wage with maximum production. Under the free trade policy …show more content…

Environmental problems like climate changes cause economic devastation with disease, disasters and famines. Epidemiologist and environmentalist suggest that the south is the most exposed and vulnerable for environmental changes. Any damage in the environment will cause this hemisphere a great loss in the economy and drive the people into poverty (Hassoun, p.355-357). As poverty and environment is connected, trade policies need to ensure the benefit of the poor along with environmental sustainability. The increase of environmental pollution after the appearance of trade system in the south caused it to fall under poverty and hindered its …show more content…

The SAPs worsened the Global South’s condition in a larger scale. It required reduction in government expenditure on education, health care and other social development programs to make more money accessible for repaying the debt. Moreover, countries were forced to privatize government owned utilities such as water and transportation. It caused decrease in the wage and export prices. Free trade policies were introduced by this SAP (Polack 283-284). The SAP did not help the Global South to repay the money rather it accelerated the flow of wealth to the westerns. Hence, the westerns developed more by using both the SAP and trade policy against the Global South. The development of Global South’s development was hindered by adjusting with both the SAP and trade agreements which was only in favor of the westerns. In simple words the poor people of Global South lost their rights, money and resources in shouldering the burden of debt, SAP and trade

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