Globalization

Globalization

Topic 1: It is claimed that globalization is the culprit of the world's increased poverty due to its negative impacts on the developing economies. Do you agree?

Intro: Globalization is the culprit of the world's increased poverty due to its negative impacts on the countries.

My opinion: Those opinions are true.

Reason:

- creates a considerable amount of employment

- makes the environment negative impacts

- existence of sweatshops

Body:

1. Para 1: Reduction of jobs.

Ex:

- a single factory of BMW (200 workers replaced by 30 engineers to running the machines)

- Implementation of FTA and NAFTA, employment figures have fallen.

2. Para 2: damages from large industries

Ex:

- Pantanal region: the soy farmers are trying to dredge the rivers

3. Para 3: the existence of sweatshops

Ex:

- horrendous working condition, long hours, no bathroom breaks, union organizers getting beaten or killed

- woman and children tricked into bondage

- Only Western companies win cheap labor, consumers win cheap commodities, corporate CEOs win eight-figure salaries

4. Para 4:

- globalization is responsible for making the gap between the rich and the poor wider

Ex: world foreign investments reached a record level of $865 billion, 76% of that was invested in the industrialized nations. Of the rest, 82% went to top ten nations with stronger economics in the developing world, and the 48 poorest received next to nothing.

Conclusion: globalization actually has more negative impacts than positive ones.

There are some opinions that globalization has more negative effects compared to positive ones. I think that those opinions are true due to the fact that globalization creates a considerable amount of employment, makes the environment negative impacts and there is also existence of sweatshops.

Instead of promoting job creation, globalization has a large impact on the reduction of jobs. Firstly, the robotic technology has developed. Workers are being replaced by robots and modern machines. For instance, a single factory of BMW is now using only 30 engineers to running the machines instead of about 200 workers 10 years ago. So many employees have lost their jobs. Unemployment has risen up. Another example is that since the implementation of FTA (Free Trade Association) in 1090 and NAFTA (North American free trade association) in 1004, employment figures have fallen by nearly 15% in the sectors unaffected by free trade, compared with a fall of 8% in those sectors affected by trade free.

Our environment often suffers from the effects of globalization in many ways. Large industries coming into an area often do direct damage to an area in an effort to make production